How to Use sarin in a Sentence

sarin

noun
  • Nerve agents such as sarin are typically used in the form of a gas or vapour.
    — Martin Boland, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2018
  • While chlorine works more slowly and is less efficient than sarin, both can kill.
    — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Even a small drop on the skin of nerve agents like sarin can cause sweating and muscle twitching at point of contact.
    — Allison Barrie, Fox News, 13 July 2018
  • Did Assad want Sellström to tell the world that Syria had sarin and had used it?
    — Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Among the crucial questions is whether victims of the attack in Douma were killed by chlorine or sarin.
    — Julian E. Barnes, WSJ, 4 May 2018
  • An expert at a security consulting firm tried to be helpful, telling her that sarin is not gas.
    — George F. Will, The Denver Post, 28 Jan. 2017
  • Russians were stationed at Shayrat Air Base — which is not large — and ought to have known that sarin was stashed there.
    — Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 12 Apr. 2017
  • The crisis ended, but gases including chlorine and sarin would be used again—as before, with blame placed on each side by the other.
    — Charles Glass, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • Trump ordered a missile strike last April after a sarin attack killed dozens of people in Idlib province.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, latimes.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • That hasn’t stopped Damascus from using chemical weapons short of sarin in attacks against rebels and civilians.
    — Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
  • It can also be used to manufacture chemical weapons, such as sarin and VX gases.
    — Mayumi Negishi and Alastair Gale, WSJ, 10 July 2019
  • For terrorists, sarin would be the nerve agent of choice to inflict mass casualties because of its high volatility and rapid uptake in the body.
    — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The Syrian government is believed to have used sarin and chlorine gas on a number of occasions.
    — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2018
  • An earlier sarin gas attack by the cult in central Japan in 1994 killed seven people.
    — Alastair Gale, WSJ, 6 July 2018
  • Nearly 100 people were killed in the northern town of Khan Sheikhoun in an apparent sarin attack.
    — Amanda Erickson, chicagotribune.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Days after the Latamneh strikes, sarin was used in an attack at nearby Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province, killing scores.
    — Washington Post, 13 June 2018
  • The images recalled two earlier chemical weapons attacks on civilians in Syria, both of which involved the nerve agent sarin.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult left sarin, a deadly nerve agent, in plastic bags on subway cars and poked the bags with umbrellas before fleeing.
    — Washington Post, 6 July 2018
  • Trump ordered an attack last April against the Shayrat air base after a warplane at the base dropped bombs on another town allegedly containing the nerve agent sarin.
    — W.j. Hennigan, Time, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Sources inside Syria are that a sarin-gas attack in Idlib Province killed dozens of civilians and injured hundreds more on Tuesday.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2017
  • Syria and Russia then suggested that insurgents or other nonstate actors in Khan Sheikhoun had planted a sarin bomb on the ground.
    — Rick Gladstone, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Ayrault said France reached the conclusion after comparing samples from a 2013 sarin attack in Syria that matched the new ones.
    — Mike Corder, The Seattle Times, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Mustard and sarin gas weapons have not yet been found in Syria since Assad’s collapse a month ago, prompting concern over their location and the whereabouts of the weaponeers who maintained them.
    — Andrew Kishuni, Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Farha’s cloth specifically destroys the nerve agents VX and soman, also known as GD, which is a more toxic relative of sarin.
    — Sophia Chen, Wired, 4 Feb. 2020
  • On March 24, the team found, a Syrian fighter jet dropped a bomb carrying sarin on the village, sickening 16 people.
    — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
  • As far back as the mid-1980s, the CIA claimed that the Syrian regime was capable of producing nearly eight tons of sarin per month.
    — chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
  • This dynamic played out most starkly in Syria, in the aftermath of the August 2013 sarin gas attack in Ghouta.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The Kentucky storage facility has housed mustard agent and the VX and sarin nerve agents, much of it inside rockets and other projectiles, since the 1940s.
    — Andrew Demillo, Thomas Peipert, and Dylan Lovan, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2023
  • In August 2013, Assad ordered a devastating sarin gas attack in Ghouta which killed at least 1,400 people, many of them children.
    — S.e. Cupp, New York Daily News, 11 June 2026
  • Japan was stunned into a mainstream awareness of cults in 1995, when Aum Shinrikyo, a vaguely Buddhist meditation sect, released sarin gas in the Tokyo subway, killing more than a dozen and injuring thousands.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026

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