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
• Police said the pair were exposed to the nerve agent Novichok.
  — Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY, 9 July 2018
• The nerve agent was produced in the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
  — Washington Post, 11 July 2018
• Kim Jong Nam was poisoned in a Malaysian airport with a lethal nerve agent.
  — Tyler Van Dyke, Washington Examiner, 19 Nov. 2020
• Some of those shells may still contain deadly nerve agents.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• Tests confirmed that the couple were exposed to the same nerve agent that poisoned the Skripals.
  — Casey Quackenbush, Time, 11 July 2018
• 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
• Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent while on an airplane in 2020.
  — Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 29 Feb. 2024
• In addition to the Skripals, the nerve agent harmed three others who came in contact with it.
  — NBC News, 5 Dec. 2019
• In 2020, Navalny blamed Putin for poisoning him with a nerve agent.
  — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 2 Mar. 2022
• That’s why prompt treatment is so important — and knowing that a nerve agent is to blame will help.
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 4 July 2018
• Aum Shinrikyo, which carried a nerve agent attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 18 July 2021
• But Putin purposely used a nerve agent so there would be footprints leading all the way back to the Kremlin.
  — CBS News, 26 Aug. 2020
• Police couldn’t say whether the four were all contaminated from the same batch of nerve agent.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 8 July 2018
• The procedure involves drawing a vile of blood from the patient to test for an enzyme that the nerve agent would attack in the body.
  — Matt Button, baltimoresun.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• 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 nerve agent is a cholinesterase inhibitor, part of the class of substances that doctors at Charite said last week had shown up in Navalny's system.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 Sep. 2020
• Britain has accused Russia of exposing them to a nerve agent.
  — Ilan Ben Zion, The Seattle Times, 28 May 2018
• Her station focused on a type of blood test done if someone is believed to have been exposed to a nerve agent.
  — Matt Button, baltimoresun.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• The regime had tried to kill him before, once poisoning him with a weapons-grade nerve agent that left Navalny comatose for weeks.
  — Simon Shuster / Vilnius, TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
• Tests showed that he had been poisoned with a chemical nerve agent, Novichok.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2020
• 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
• Skripal and his daughter were poisoned by the military-grade nerve agent in the British town of Salisbury in March.
  — Matt Richardson, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2018
• He and his daughter in 2018 were nearly killed in Britain by nerve agent poisoning blamed on Russian agents.
  — Eric Tucker, arkansasonline.com, 2 Aug. 2024
• Kim ordered his half brother’s assassination with a nerve agent in Kuala Lumpur.
  — Scott D. Sagan, Foreign Affairs, 16 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024