How to Use biological warfare in a Sentence

biological warfare

noun

• At this point, that might be the only way to protect the world from extinction-level biological warfare.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 8 May 2018
• There is no antidote — and that has made the Marburg virus a prime candidate for biological warfare.
  — Lucy Cooke, Washington Post, 2 July 2018
• There is no antidote - and that has made the Marburg virus a prime candidate for biological warfare.
  — Lucy Cooke, ajc, 3 July 2018
• There is a killer bug buzzing around Australia which scientists are breeding as a biological warfare agent.
  — Fox News, 25 May 2018
• This was the start of Pontiac’s War, a series of sieges and battles that lasted a full year and ended with the British using smallpox blankets to commit biological warfare against the natives.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 19 June 2018
• It's set several decades from now, long after a breakdown in the global order brought an end to the nation-state and climate change and biological warfare killed hundreds of millions.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2017
• If the virus is ever deployed as biological warfare, the fruit bat’s super-immunity may hold the answer to preventing its spread.
  — Lucy Cooke, Washington Post, 2 July 2018
• If the virus is ever deployed as biological warfare, the fruit bat's super-immunity may hold the answer to preventing its spread.
  — Lucy Cooke, ajc, 3 July 2018
• But this pandemic should be a stark reminder that the risk of biological warfare must be taken seriously, and preparations be made for an even worse-case scenario.
  — Abraar Karan, STAT, 22 Aug. 2021
• In the biological warfare of pest control, there’s certainly more than one way to attack a mosquito, public health officials say.
  — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 31 May 2021
• Disguised as an epidemic prevention and water purification department, the unit functioned through the end of the war as a testing ground for agents of biological warfare.
  — Emily Langer, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
• The novel coronavirus is not an ideal biological warfare agent, experts say, because its impact on the United States and adversaries alike cannot be controlled.
  — Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 31 Mar. 2020
• Many in China also perceive the United States as a potential biological warfare threat.
  — Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2020
• Although a few governments and criminals have made low-tech attempts to contaminate water, food, or clothing, there has been no state-on-state biological warfare since the Second World War.
  — Elisabeth Eaves, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2020
• But at the same time, Langmuir was growing increasingly preoccupied by the threat of biological warfare.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 13 May 2021
• But others pushed exaggerated or false claims, like the unproven theory that the virus was engineered in a lab as part of a Chinese biological warfare strategy.
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2020
• This is purportedly the result of biological warfare on the part of a native intelligent species known as Spackle, who resented the arrival of the colonizers.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2020
• Oleg, an idealist, committed treason in season four to protect the world from biological warfare.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 24 May 2018
• Many people in China also perceive the United States as a potential biological warfare threat.
  — Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2020
• Worryingly, Russia has also threatened to break the taboo on the first use of nuclear weapons and has the capability to carry out chemical and biological warfare.
  — Margaret MacMillan, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2023
• The Pentagon’s research arm wants a better suit for those responding to chemical and biological warfare attacks.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2019
• In the case of pandemics or biological warfare, there will likely be both a surge in demand for important goods and a simultaneous disruption of production and delivery.
  — Smithsonian, 22 Jan. 2018
• In the case of pandemics or biological warfare, there will probably be a surge in demand for important goods and a simultaneous disruption of production and delivery.
  — Morten Wendelbo, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• Did mosquitos inspire the idea of biological warfare in general?
  — Emily Toomey, Smithsonian, 5 Aug. 2019
• People miss their public pleasures, like checking their texts during movies and coughing indoors without being suspected of biological warfare.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2021
• Existing chemical and biological warfare suits are difficult to wear and lack some protective features.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2019
• Syrians said the rain of 105 missiles had caused no deaths or toxic chemical clouds, and hit only a handful of military facilities that the Trump administration said were used to research, produce or stockpile chemical and biological warfare agents.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, latimes.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• Chernow noted that British generals released infected civilians and captives towards American lines at the siege of Boston and at Yorktown in a ghoulish pre-industrial version of biological warfare.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 30 July 2021
• Burgdorfer himself was involved in biological warfare programs that involved using blood-sucking insects, including fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes, as vectors for the transmission of human diseases.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2019
• Today, Gruinard is visited by shepherds and hunters, no longer an incipient experiment in the potentials of biological warfare.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2017

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024