How to Use chemical weapon in a Sentence

chemical weapon

noun

• For every airplane, computer or chemical weapon appearing in our archives, there are a ton of other inventions that are, to put it bluntly, rather pointless.
  — Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2011
• And chemical weapons may not be used again for a long time.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Apr. 2018
• This isn’t the first time Trump has responded to the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 14 Apr. 2018
• Instead, an agreement was cut with the Russians to get rid of the chemical weapons.
  — NBC News, 15 Apr. 2018
• And Israel bombed a site in Syria that has been linked to chemical weapons.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• British officials have said the chemical weapon is what caused the others to fall ill.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2018
• The talk show host declared there was no chemical weapons attack on the Syrian town of Douma.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• Chlorine gas, which can appear in the air as a greenish yellow cloud, was used as a chemical weapon in World War 1.
  — CBS News, 27 Aug. 2020
• She has not engaged in a painful, snowballing gaffe about Adolf Hitler not using chemical weapons in the Holocaust.
  — Clio Chang, New Republic, 15 Sep. 2017
• The second is more normative, and that is upholding the non-use of chemical weapons.
  — Israel Kasnett, Jewish Journal, 24 Apr. 2018
• What would happen if a chemical weapon was dropped on Ukraine and/or a short-range tactical nuke?
  — ABC News, 1 May 2022
• Last year's chemical weapons attack killed dozens civilians, as did this one.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2018
• In the past few years, the Syrian government has used chemical weapons in the civil war that has ravaged the country.
  — Abigail Higgins, Vox, 18 Oct. 2018
• Bombardier beetles are the chemical weapons experts of the insect world.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
• Prior to this massive outrage, there had been sporadic and small-scale use of chemical weapons by both sides, for which each side blamed the other.
  — Charles Glass, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• This would not be the first time the chemical weapons watchdog was shaken by great-power politics.
  — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
• Chemotherapy’s origins can be traced back to the development of chemical weapons in the first world war.
  — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
• New work has just revealed, though, that bacteria can use chemical weapons as well.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 5 Dec. 2018
• That same concept applies to skin coming in contact with a chemical weapon.
  — Thatiana Diaz, refinery29.com, 5 June 2020
• Russia, an ally of the Assad regime, is also denying claims that chemical weapons had been used.
  — Emily Stewart, Vox, 8 Apr. 2018
• Russia will not agree to any mechanism that might shine a spotlight on the use of chemical weapons by its ally the Syrian regime.
  — Michelle Sandlin, Houston Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2018
• Israel regards him as a war criminal, the man who used chemical weapons on his own people.
  — Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2018
• In a parallel plot, Russia cracks down on the locals in retaliation for the theft of the chemical weapons.
  — Nick Capozzoli, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2019
• Phosgene is hazardous at very low levels, noted Schettler, and has been used as a chemical weapon in war.
  — Jill Neimark, STAT, 21 Feb. 2023
• No mention was made of the evidence of cyber-meddling in the 2016 campaign or of the use on British soil of chemical weapons to poison enemies of the Kremlin.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2018
• The purpose of our actions tonight is to establish a strong deterrent against the production, spread, and use of chemical weapons.
  — Essence.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• In the First World War, mustard gas was used as a chemical weapon, and doctors observed that soldiers who had been affected had very low white blood cell counts.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2022
• The chemical weapons may be gone but asbestos, mold, broken pipes and hantavirus-carrying mice plague some of the 1940s-era buildings that have been mothballed for years.
  — Jade McDowell, The Seattle Times, 5 Feb. 2018
• The regime of Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons in an attack in Idlib province; America hit back with 59 cruise missiles.
  — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
• After all, this is a man who's defended Trump and insisted that Hitler didn't use chemical weapons.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Sep. 2017

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