How to Use nerve agent in a Sentence

nerve agent

noun
  • Dawn Sturgess, who died after being exposed to a nerve agent.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 4 Dec. 2025
  • For example, a few years ago, another team wondered if AI could be used to generate novel molecules that would have the same properties as nerve agents.
    — Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
  • This nerve agent was once released by the apocalyptic cult Aum Shinrikyo on the Tokyo subway in March 1995.
    — Ibrahim Al-Marashi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The allegation feeds into a long and deeply contested narrative around high-profile poison cases in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, from radioactive tea to nerve agents.
    — Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The doc is an account of the 2018 Novichok nerve agent attack that transformed a quiet English city into the epicenter of a geopolitical crisis.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 10 June 2026
  • He was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok while flying from Moscow to Siberia in 2020 and treated in Germany.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2026
  • An investigation revealed they had been poisoned with Novichok, a nerve agent developed by Russia — casting suspicion on the Kremlin as the culprit.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 6 May 2026
  • Radiological weapons can be detected by a Geiger counter, while chemical weapons can usually be identified by reagents, electronic sensors, and special detection sheets sensitive to things like nerve agents.
    — David Szondy june 27, New Atlas, 27 June 2026
  • Under the Chemical Weapons Convention, nerve agents like Novichoks are tightly controlled, and any deliberate use against humans is prohibited.
    — Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 15 Feb. 2026
  • In 2021, Navalny returned to Russia from Germany, where he had been treated after being poisoned with Novichok, a Soviet-era nerve agent.
    — Anna Chernova, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
  • About four months later, mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess, 44, died from exposure to the poison after her partner found a counterfeit perfume bottle which Russian spies had used to smuggle the military-grade nerve agent into the country, the inquiry said.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 4 Dec. 2025
  • He had been imprisoned in an Arctic penal colony since returning to Russia in 2021 from Germany, where he had been treated after being poisoned with Novichok, a Soviet-era nerve agent.
    — Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 14 Feb. 2026
  • He was previously poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok while flying from Moscow to Siberia in 2020, eventually recovering after a long period of treatment in Germany.
    — CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • British officials later announced that the Skripals had apparently been poisoned with Novichok, a group of deadly nerve agents developed by the Soviet Union in the 1970s and ’80s and designed to be especially lethal and largely undetectable.
    — Nick Tabor, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Apr. 2026
  • He was sanctioned by the European Union in 2019 in connection with the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, England with the nerve agent Novichok.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 9 Feb. 2026
  • He was also sanctioned by the European Union in January 2019 following a nerve agent attack in Salisbury, England, which the British government said was carried out by GRU agents to poison a former Russian spy.
    — Cnn's Tim Lister, CNN Money, 8 Feb. 2026
  • He was also sanctioned by the European Union in January 2019 following a nerve agent attack in Salisbury, England, which the British government said was carried out by GRU agents to poison a former Russian spy.
    — Anna Chernova, CNN Money, 6 Feb. 2026

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