How to Use toxin in a Sentence

toxin

noun

• The toxin produced by E. coli led to the death of her 2½-year-old son, Kevin.
  — Ellie Krieger, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
• The buildup of toxins in his body had left him comatose.
  — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• Staff then hooked her up to an IV bag of fluid to help flush the toxin out of her body.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2024
• Why else would there be a syringe with that toxin in it?
  — CBS News, 12 Feb. 2022
• The smaller the filter pores, the smaller the pathogens and toxins that can be strained out of your water.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024
• At high levels, the toxin can cause illness and death in pets.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 31 Dec. 2020
• The flowers, leaves, buds, and stalks all contain the poison, but the buds and leaves contain the most toxin.
  — Jennifer Nelson, Southern Living, 17 June 2021
• He was not poisoned with a weapons-grade toxin or found in the wreckage of an aircraft that plunged from the sky.
  — Greg Miller, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
• No one knows for sure how the toxin ended up in sun care products.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 17 July 2021
• Once in the Gulf Stream, waves can force the toxin produced to be dispersed in the air, which can be carried by east winds to the beaches.
  — Kimberly Miller, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2023
• The plant's chemical is an oil, so just rinsing with water will not help clear the skin of the toxin.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Sep. 2022
• Their eggs carry a toxin, too, which can cause skin and eye rashes.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2023
• The toxins damage the cilia and cause the upper airways to swell, according to the CDC.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2024
• Richardson pleads guilty to possession of a toxin for use as a weapon.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 27 May 2021
• Young toads carry much lower doses of toxin—enough to make the lizards sick but not kill them.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 5 July 2024
• The toxin can prove lethal to predators and even has the ability to cause illness and death in humans.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2020
• The eco-friendly toxin-free PVC is scratch- and tear-resistant to hold up to every punch.
  — Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2022
• In a strike, the animal releases a toxin from glandular cells at the base of one of the barbs.
  — Katharine Gammon, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
• When in fact, the key to solving Alzheimer’s is in a toxin that forms during earlier stages.
  — Diana Tsai, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2021
• What's two inches long, has dozens of yellow legs, and oozes a cyanide toxin that smells like cherries?
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 18 May 2021
• In further tests, Wilde and colleagues found that the toxin also kills fish, insects, and worms.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 25 Mar. 2021
• Herbal teas are a rich source of antioxidants that can work inside the body to reduce the toxin load.
  — Daily Health Reports, Chron, 4 Feb. 2021
• Low acid environment is one of the conditions in which the spores can grow and make toxins.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2024
• Researchers also hope the toxins won't spread to other parts of the Pacific Ocean.
  — Kyle Melnick The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 9 July 2023
• The more neurons a toxin stimulates, the more pain would result.
  — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 21 Jan. 2021
• Left unplugged, many wells leak climate-warming methane, brine and toxins that were used in the drilling process.
  — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2023
• The toxins must come from abroad, presumably in food and consumer products.
  — Kim Tingley, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• But the man looked far too healthy to have an exposure to this type of toxin sufficient to cause these findings.
  — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
• Coal ash is a sooty confetti of toxins: arsenic, mercury, silica, radium.
  — Jared Sullivan, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
• This can lead to foodborne botulism, a rare but serious condition caused by a toxin produced by Clostridium botulinum bacteria.
  — Lindsey Desoto, Rd, Health, 29 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024