How to Use weapon of mass destruction in a Sentence

weapon of mass destruction

noun phrase

• Any weapon that can be defeated by a net isn't a weapon of mass destruction.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2017
• There have always been two facts in tension: on the one hand, Oppenheimer helped create a weapon of mass destruction that was used to kill hundreds of thousands of people.
  — Megan McCluskey, Time, 25 July 2023
• Watch on Russia has been happy to threaten the use of this weird weapon of mass destruction prior to its operational deployment.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2023
• The fairy princesses go on strike, the evil Stepmother gets spiteful with a plan that goes sadly wrong, and the narrator rages, deploying banishment as a weapon of mass destruction.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 22 June 2023
• Their plan is to turn the small New Mexico burg of Los Alamos into a self-sufficient, family-friendly town for a group of scientists and a top-secret think tank for a weapon of mass destruction.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2023
• This suburban crisis is fueling a narrative of fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, aimed at naive victims who don’t know the fake pills contain poison.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• After a three-week trial, a federal jury found Beal, of Long Beach, guilty of using a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death, and three other felonies related to the explosion.
  — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
• Last year a group of Republican attorneys general asked the president to declare fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction.
  — Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2023
• McVeigh committed federal crimes, such as use of a weapon of mass destruction on federal property and the murder of federal law enforcement officers.
  — Stefanie Lindquist, The Conversation, 15 Aug. 2023
• Despite the ongoing efforts to acquire a weapon of mass destruction, the March 2023 document notes, encouragingly, that the terrorist group’s ambitions were severely undermined by the collapse of the caliphate.
  — Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2023
• Republicans have described the Mexican criminal drug-trafficking networks as a national security threat, with some calling fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction.
  — Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Aug 2024