How to Use strychnine in a Sentence

strychnine

noun

• Nux vomica or nuxvomica is made from the same tree that is the source of strychnine, used to poison rodents and birds.
  — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2017
• This had been the choice of Sá-Carneiro, who put on his best suit and swallowed strychnine in a Paris hotel in 1916, depriving Pessoa of his best friend.
  — Benjamin Kunkel, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• There were reports of stimulants like cocaine and strychnine to keep competitors alert.
  — Todd Balf, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2018
• Taking stimulants was an accepted practice when Thomas Hicks won the 1904 Olympic marathon race — and almost died — after a mixture of brandy and strychnine got him to the finish line.
  — Grant Clark and Henry Meyer | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
• Poison was the most effective lethal strategy; lacing a single deer carcass with strychnine could kill dozens of wolves.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• Other remedies have contained a toxic substance called strychnine, which is also used as a rat poison in higher doses.
  — Michael Nedelman, CNN, 19 Dec. 2017
• The ladies offer each new guest some homemade elderberry wine whose secret ingredients – arsenic, strychnine and cyanide – have a lethal kick.
  — Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2017
• The Eberle brothers had dynamite for blowing up railroad bridges, and strychnine to poison the food and water that rebel wives would offer to investigating lawmen.
  — Trevor Paulhus, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2019
• Much of Christie’s unwaning appeal relies on incongruity—maleficence emerging in the most genteel of contexts, like strychnine in the tea—whereas the Thrombeys make no pretense of decency.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2019
• At the time, friends and the public assumed the scientist had used strychnine to commit suicide, but Kennicott’s family didn’t believe this explanation.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 21 June 2017
• At the time, friends and the public assumed the scientist had used strychnine to commit suicide, but Kennicott’s family didn’t believe this explanation.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 21 June 2017
• Meanwhile the Eberle brothers were recruiting their relatives to the WCU, urging people not to register for the draft, and stashing ammunition, strychnine and dynamite.
  — Trevor Paulhus, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2019
• Once thoroughbred racing crossed the Atlantic, the United States gained a reputation for the innovative use of performance aids: cocaine, heroin, strychnine, caffeine.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
• Other dangerous ingredients used in homeopathy products include nux vomica, which contains strychnine.
  — Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 20 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024