How to Use nerve agent in a Sentence

nerve agent

noun
  • There, medics found traces of the nerve agent in his system.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Kim Jong Nam was poisoned in a Malaysian airport with a lethal nerve agent.
    Tyler Van Dyke, Washington Examiner, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The Russians have already used a weapons-grade nerve agent, Novichok.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Each rocket carries about 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms) of the nerve agent.
    Dylan Lovan, The Courier-Journal, 8 June 2023
  • Navalny was poisoned by a nerve agent in 2020 and later jailed.
    Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Navalny blamed Putin for the attack on him using the nerve agent Novichok.
    Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022
  • He has been poisoned by a nerve agent, by a chemical weapon.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2023
  • In 2020, Navalny blamed Putin for poisoning him with a nerve agent.
    Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Aum Shinrikyo, which carried a nerve agent attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995.
    Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 18 July 2021
  • In the ensuing days, public health officials raced against time to trace the lethal nerve agent that threatened the city.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 24 Jan. 2021
  • The Kremlin denied trying to kill him and said there was no evidence he was poisoned with a nerve agent.
    Reuters, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Theories range from a nerve agent to microwave or sonic weapons.
    Peter Aitken, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Navalny was poisoned in a nerve agent attack last summer and nearly died.
    Star Tribune, 8 Feb. 2021
  • The Soviet-era Novichok nerve agent was used to poison Navalny.
    Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2020
  • There was enough nerve agent in that bottle to kill several thousand people.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Sarin is an extremely volatile nerve agent because of its ability to change from liquid to gas.
    Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 20 May 2021
  • Britain blamed Russia for the pair’s exposure to a nerve agent, an allegation Moscow denies, and Abramovich is not linked to.
    Rob Harris, ajc, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Navalny was poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok, which was developed as a Soviet weapon of war.
    Anne Gearan, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Last year Russia’s security services slipped him a nerve agent in a botched attempt to murder him.
    The Economist, 23 Jan. 2021
  • The news comes after Navalny, who was poisoned in Russia with a nerve agent, was arrested upon his return to the country.
    Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Scientists have said Novichok, a Soviet-era nerve agent, was used.
    Alex Leary, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent Aug. 20, then spent months recovering in Germany.
    Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 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
  • Last year, Navalny nearly died from a nerve agent in an apparent poisoning.
    Joe Walsh, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Navalny has been recovering in Berlin after falling ill from the nerve agent in Russia on Aug. 20, spending weeks in a coma.
    Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Just months ago, Navalny relearned how to walk while recovering from exposure to the nerve agent Novichok.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2021
  • And Navalny continues to suffer from the effects of poisoning by Novichok, a nerve agent known only to have been produced by the Russian state.
    Sam Kiley, CNN, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Navalny, 44, was sickened by the Russian nerve agent in an attack that the United States and others linked to Putin’s security services.
    Time, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Navalny was poisoned with a chemical weapon in the same class as the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok while traveling in Siberia last August.
    BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Navalny was flown to Germany last year after being poisoned with what the West concluded was a military nerve agent.
    NBC News, 20 Aug. 2021

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