How to Use poison gas in a Sentence

poison gas

noun
  • Detect bombs, poison gas clouds, and concealed weapons from afar!
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The worst elil is man, riding in his hrududu, coming with his traps and snares, his poison gas.
    — Peter Rock, New York Times, 15 May 2018
  • For wolves, the most recent settlement prevents using poison gas or fire to kill wolf pups in dens.
    — Keith Ridler, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Bashar Assad, accused of using poison gas again on his own people.
    — Fox News, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Guards subjected torture victims to electric shocks, doused them with poison gas and burned them.
    — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Yet even now, as office space expands like poison gas into our homes, we’re still drawn back to the mothership.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 6 July 2022
  • The poison gas caused intense pain, blindness, and the feeling of being strangled.
    — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2020
  • The air strikes were launched against three targets, each involved in Syria’s poison gas program.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Soldiers are welcomed back in the nearby town, some now maimed or weakened by poison gas exposure.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 June 2023
  • His task was to develop poison gases—first mustard gas, then an even nastier brew called lewisite.
    — Steven Shapin, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Ironically, the Germans had known all along about the source of the poison gas in the harbor.
    — Jennet Conant, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Infamously, Assad used poison gas against his own people and then lied about it.
    — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Instead, poison gas soon left a chamber full of corpses, which were lugged to a nearby crematorium and burned.
    — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Day by day our comrades are still dying from the effects of wounds, poison gas and disease contracted in the service of our country.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2021
  • For the first time, Allied forces on the Western front experienced poison gas.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2022
  • And doomed men at that, English soldiers stuck in a trench about to be doused in poison gas, and overrun by German soldiers.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Prussic acid is a leading ingredient in the new poison gas, which is being used by both the Germans and the allies in shells.
    — Johnny Miller, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2018
  • The group, which put the death toll at more than 40, said many residents were hiding in cellars, suffocating from poison gas.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Despite advances like the use of poison gas and armored tanks, both sides were trapped in trench warfare that claimed enormous numbers of casualties.
    — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 11 Apr. 2019
  • One tense predicament replaces another, from poison gas attacks to mutinous passengers to orders to kill the co-pilot or shoot down the plane.
    — Malcom Forbes Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
  • Blood of My Blood doesn’t shy away from the violence and gore of this war — there is blood and guts and young men dying, there is poison gas and bodies on barbed wire.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Regime and Russian war crimes have killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, whose death by barrel bombs and poison gas can be viewed on YouTube.
    — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 3 July 2018
  • One Kurdish journalist who helped document Iraqi Jewish sites had to flee a poison gas attack.
    — Dara Horn, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2020
  • This was the second strike against Syria in a little over a year, in response to the second alleged use by the government of a poison gas against its citizens.
    — Author: Louisa Loveluck, Liz Sly, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Eventually, poison gas starts filling the apartment and Spider-Man escapes.
    — George Yang, Variety, 22 Oct. 2023
  • On Sunday, 14 people were killed, including an infant who was allegedly killed in a poison gas attack on the town of Sheifouniyeh.
    — Jamey Keaten, The Seattle Times, 26 Feb. 2018
  • This slice of the Ypres Salient hosted three major battles, including the one where German forces first used poison gas against the Allies.
    — Nick Stockton, WIRED, 9 July 2018
  • Whoever may have been responsible originally for the resort to poison gas, there is little doubt that both the Germans and the allies are now using it.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The government of President Bashar Assad has denied using poison gas.
    — Robert Burns, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Iraq uses poison gas against the Kurdish people in Halabja in Northern Iraq.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 13 Apr. 2021

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