How to Use chemical weapon in a Sentence

chemical weapon

noun
  • Last year's chemical weapons attack killed dozens civilians, as did this one.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2018
  • British officials have said the chemical weapon is what caused the others to fall ill.
    — Washington Post, 7 July 2018
  • New work has just revealed, though, that bacteria can use chemical weapons as well.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 5 Dec. 2018
  • And Israel bombed a site in Syria that has been linked to chemical weapons.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Instead, an agreement was cut with the Russians to get rid of the chemical weapons.
    — NBC News, 15 Apr. 2018
  • That same concept applies to skin coming in contact with a chemical weapon.
    — Thatiana Diaz, refinery29.com, 5 June 2020
  • What would happen if a chemical weapon was dropped on Ukraine and/or a short-range tactical nuke?
    — ABC News, 1 May 2022
  • Israel regards him as a war criminal, the man who used chemical weapons on his own people.
    — Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2018
  • This would not be the first time the chemical weapons watchdog was shaken by great-power politics.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Bombardier beetles are the chemical weapons experts of the insect world.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The second is more normative, and that is upholding the non-use of chemical weapons.
    — Israel Kasnett, Jewish Journal, 24 Apr. 2018
  • This isn’t the first time Trump has responded to the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
    — Alex Ward, Vox, 14 Apr. 2018
  • That’s because the bombardier beetle is a walking chemical weapon.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Chemotherapy’s origins can be traced back to the development of chemical weapons in the first world war.
    — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Prior to this massive outrage, there had been sporadic and small-scale use of chemical weapons by both sides, for which each side blamed the other.
    — Charles Glass, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • The talk show host declared there was no chemical weapons attack on the Syrian town of Douma.
    — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Russia, an ally of the Assad regime, is also denying claims that chemical weapons had been used.
    — Emily Stewart, Vox, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Phosgene is hazardous at very low levels, noted Schettler, and has been used as a chemical weapon in war.
    — Jill Neimark, STAT, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The executive order casts fentanyl as not just a lethal drug, but as a potential chemical weapon.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025
  • It can also be used to manufacture chemical weapons, such as sarin and VX gases.
    — Mayumi Negishi and Alastair Gale, WSJ, 10 July 2019
  • Chlorine gas, which can appear in the air as a greenish yellow cloud, was used as a chemical weapon in World War 1.
    — CBS News, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Russia will not agree to any mechanism that might shine a spotlight on the use of chemical weapons by its ally the Syrian regime.
    — Michelle Sandlin, Houston Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2018
  • In the past few years, the Syrian government has used chemical weapons in the civil war that has ravaged the country.
    — Abigail Higgins, Vox, 18 Oct. 2018
  • The purpose of our actions tonight is to establish a strong deterrent against the production, spread, and use of chemical weapons.
    — Essence.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • In a parallel plot, Russia cracks down on the locals in retaliation for the theft of the chemical weapons.
    — Nick Capozzoli, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2019
  • That war, in which Saddam used chemical weapons and Iran launched human wave attacks, killed 1 million people.
    — Mehdi Fattahi, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2019
  • Syria and its allies in Russia have denied that chemical weapons were used in Douma, labeling the attack a hoax.
    — Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 12 Apr. 2018
  • As a reminder, this is not the first time Assad has used chemical weapons on his people, making Trump’s sudden shift all the more surprising.
    — Bess Levin, vanityfair.com, 7 Apr. 2017
  • In the First World War, mustard gas was used as a chemical weapon, and doctors observed that soldiers who had been affected had very low white blood cell counts.
    — New York Times, 25 May 2022
  • Just outside Denver in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, a beige warehouse stands on the site of a former chemical weapons facility.
    — National Geographic, 1 Mar. 2016

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