How to Use nerve gas in a Sentence

nerve gas

noun
  • The film ends with Egerton’s Ethan saving the day and preventing the nerve gas attack.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The thought is the pigment could act as an absorbent for toxins, particularly nerve gas.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Sarin is a deadly nerve gas originally developed by the Nazis.
    — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 5 July 2018
  • In addition to the eight people killed, hundreds were injured by the colorless, odorless nerve gas.
    — Author: Stuart Biggs, Gearoid Reidy, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2018
  • Chlorpyrifos was first developed as a nerve gas in World War II.
    — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The charge releases a nerve gas that activates mucus membranes in the eyes, throat and lungs and causes pain, Jordt said.
    — oregonlive, 5 June 2020
  • The agent used may have been a cocktail of chlorine and nerve agent as hospital workers reported the smell of chlorine with nerve gas symptoms.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 13 Apr. 2018
  • My old grandmother always said never to make trouble for chubby little men with bad haircuts, nerve gas, and nuclear weapons.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 22 Sep. 2017
  • And chatbots can theoretically walk a would-be terrorist through the steps of making a bomb, nerve gas, and a host of other horrors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2024
  • This happened back in 2003, when the country was especially antsy over anthrax, nerve gas and other evil pathogens.
    — Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Modern phosphate, for fertilizers and other uses like in detergents and nerve gas, comes from the non-renewable source of rock.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Members of Aum Shinrikyo, an apocalyptic cult, had released nerve gas on the Tokyo subway.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2018
  • Over the years, Fort Detrick has housed some of the world’s deadliest substances, from the Ebola virus to nerve gas to anthrax.
    — Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 21 July 2021
  • Protection from nerve gas Gianneschi and Lu are studying using melanin as a protective dye in clothing.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Doctors are using atropine, which is commonly used for nerve gas and pesticide poisonings, to treat Navalny.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 24 Aug. 2020
  • These surfaces can attract and bind with many simple gas molecules such as methane, hydrogen and water, as well as more complex compounds, including pollutants and nerve gas agents.
    — Steven Ashley, Scientific American, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The group set up a commune at the foot of Mount Fuji where Matsumoto preached to his followers and Aum’s scientists produced nerve gas.
    — Alastair Gale, WSJ, 6 July 2018
  • Exposure to chemical warfare agents—such as nerve gas—or to pyridostigmine bromide, a drug given to soldiers as a preventive measure against chemical attacks, may have played a role.
    — Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • An inadvertent release of nerve gas in March 1968 killed 6,000 sheep and harmed an untold number of people.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The Clinton administration said the factory was producing nerve gas and that its operators were linked to al-Qaeda.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The doc plunges straight into the stories that Hersh broke back in those keyboard-clacking days, beginning with his exposé on the fallout of nerve gas testing at an Army facility in Utah.
    — Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
  • On Thursday, the Wiltshire Police said that 21 people in all had been treated as a result of the nerve gas poisoning in Salisbury.
    — Stephen Castle and Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
  • This air can be mixed with heated jet engine oil, hydraulic fluid and more, including certain chemical compounds that could also be found in insecticides, pesticides and nerve gases like Sarin gas.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Tuesday marks 23 years since members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult punctured plastic bags to release sarin nerve gas inside subway cars, sickening thousands and killing 13.
    — Fox News, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The attack also came less than a month after Syrian forces were accused of launching an attack, allegedly with chlorine and nerve gas, on a Damascus suburb on April 7.
    — Sune Engel Rasmussen, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2018
  • In addition, many veterans diagnosed with GWS were exposed to chemicals, such as pesticides and nerve gas, that are known to damage mitochondria.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2014
  • Many Japanese, shaken by the 1995 nerve gas attack in the Tokyo subways by another obscure religious sect, worried that Soka Gakkai was also a cult.
    — Motoko Rich, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Thirteen people were killed and nearly 6,000 injured when a doomsday cult, Aum Shinrikyo, sabotaged the Tokyo subway with the nerve gas Sarin in 1995.
    — Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Thirteen people were killed and nearly 6,000 injured when a doomsday cult, Aum Shinrikyo, sabotaged the Tokyo subway with the nerve gas Sarin in 1995.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Alexei Navalny, a one-time presidential candidate in Russia, was poisoned with nerve gas in 2020, and although Putin and his government denied it, the poisoning was later linked to the Kremlin.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 7 Apr. 2022

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