How to Use gas chamber in a Sentence

gas chamber

noun
  • Later that year, she and her mother were led to the gas chamber.
    — Zoë Jackson, Star Tribune, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Her parents, sister and niece went straight to the gas chambers.
    — Yardena Schwartz, miamiherald, 20 Apr. 2018
  • But that meant that my two baby sisters were going to the gas chamber alone.
    — Diane Herbst, PEOPLE.com, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Thanos was the first person to die in the state’s gas chamber in 32 years and was white.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Arizona is the only one that still has a working gas chamber.
    — CBS News, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Her mother was killed in the gas chamber on arrival at Auschwitz.
    — Robin Estrin, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2021
  • He was murdered in gas chambers that day, along with his mother and sister.
    — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Many were euthanized — through the use of a gas chamber — the same day.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The text messages contained jokes about gas chambers, slavery, and rape.
    — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
  • After Bruno climbs under the fence to see his new friend, both boys are killed in a gas chamber.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • The camp was to be liquidated and all children would be sent to the gas chamber.
    — Sergio Carmona, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Officials have yet to say whether it would be delivered in a gas chamber or through a gas mask.
    — Author: Mark Berman, William Wan, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2017
  • Her mother, father and two older sisters all died in the gas chambers there.
    — Andrew Clark, Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2017
  • But to smell it, taste it and see the gas chambers, the barracks and the barbed wire up close was life-altering.
    — Bob McKillop, Washington Post, 3 July 2018
  • Eugenia’s mother and three siblings were sent to the gas chamber.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2021
  • Fenves’s grandmother, taken from her own apartment, was sent to the gas chamber.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Many of the victims at Stutthof died by lethal injection or by the camp’s gas chamber.
    — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Maybe there's something to be said about gas chambers, maybe there's certain questions about this, that, or the other.
    — Jerad W. Alexander, Esquire, 17 Feb. 2017
  • So the warden assembled the prison band, which made a quick record that Hill played all night and right up to the gas chamber door.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The following video depicts the killing of pigs in a CO2 gas chamber.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2023
  • LaGrand was the last inmate killed in the gas chamber that officials say has since been restored.
    — Meryl Kornfield, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2021
  • The same team who put one of their Jewish characters in a gas chamber during Hanukkah?
    — Clarkisha Kent, The Root, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Most of the victims were Jews transported from across Europe to be killed in gas chambers.
    — Fox News, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Between the gas chamber and the work detail, more than a million people were murdered this way at Auschwitz.
    — Jay Winik, WSJ, 21 June 2018
  • The pet was set to be put in a gas chamber until Heigl intervened and sought a more humane way to help the canine.
    — Mia McNiece, PEOPLE.com, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Walter LaGrand died by gas chamber for his role in the stabbing death of a bank manager.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 29 June 2022
  • Gendarmes were seated in the first and last wagons, to prevent even a single Jew from avoiding the gas chamber.
    — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Chat members joked about putting their political enemies in gas chambers.
    — Chantelle Lee, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Missouri law still provides for the option of lethal gas, but the state no longer has a gas chamber and has not used the method since 1965.
    — Fox News, 20 Mar. 2018
  • While Arizona does have a gas chamber for executions, it has not been used to kill a death row inmate for more than 20 years.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 29 June 2022

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