How to Use nerve gas in a Sentence

nerve gas

noun

• Over the years, Fort Detrick has housed some of the world’s deadliest substances, from the Ebola virus to nerve gas to anthrax.
  — Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 21 July 2021
• Chlorpyrifos was first developed as a nerve gas in World War II.
  — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2021
• The charge releases a nerve gas that activates mucus membranes in the eyes, throat and lungs and causes pain, Jordt said.
  — oregonlive, 5 June 2020
• This happened back in 2003, when the country was especially antsy over anthrax, nerve gas and other evil pathogens.
  — Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2021
• The agent used may have been a cocktail of chlorine and nerve agent as hospital workers reported the smell of chlorine with nerve gas symptoms.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 13 Apr. 2018
• The group set up a commune at the foot of Mount Fuji where Matsumoto preached to his followers and Aum’s scientists produced nerve gas.
  — Alastair Gale, WSJ, 6 July 2018
• In addition to the eight people killed, hundreds were injured by the colorless, odorless nerve gas.
  — Author: Stuart Biggs, Gearoid Reidy, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2018
• On Thursday, the Wiltshire Police said that 21 people in all had been treated as a result of the nerve gas poisoning in Salisbury.
  — Stephen Castle and Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
• Members of Aum Shinrikyo, an apocalyptic cult, had released nerve gas on the Tokyo subway.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• Sarin is a deadly nerve gas originally developed by the Nazis.
  — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 5 July 2018
• North Korea is also believed to possess large stores of germ weapons and nerve gas, like the kind used to assassinate Mr. Kim’s half brother in an attack last year in Malaysia.
  — David E. Sanger and William J. Broad, New York Times, 6 May 2018
• Aum first tried to assassinate Mr. Okawa, then later launched an attack on the Tokyo subway with sarin nerve gas, killing 13 and injuring thousands.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2020
• During World War I, modern pesticides were developed as the by-products of research on nerve gas and explosives.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 13 July 2023
• Modern phosphate, for fertilizers and other uses like in detergents and nerve gas, comes from the non-renewable source of rock.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2019
• Tuesday marks 23 years since members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult punctured plastic bags to release sarin nerve gas inside subway cars, sickening thousands and killing 13.
  — Fox News, 20 Mar. 2018
• My old grandmother always said never to make trouble for chubby little men with bad haircuts, nerve gas, and nuclear weapons.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 22 Sep. 2017
• Doctors are using atropine, which is commonly used for nerve gas and pesticide poisonings, to treat Navalny.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 24 Aug. 2020
• The attack also came less than a month after Syrian forces were accused of launching an attack, allegedly with chlorine and nerve gas, on a Damascus suburb on April 7.
  — Sune Engel Rasmussen, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2018
• The Clinton administration said the factory was producing nerve gas and that its operators were linked to al-Qaeda.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 19 Aug. 2019
• But McKenzie said Syrian forces could not have moved all the equipment and precursor chemicals necessary to produce nerve gas and other weaponized chemical agents.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, latimes.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• Alexei Navalny, a one-time presidential candidate in Russia, was poisoned with nerve gas in 2020, and although Putin and his government denied it, the poisoning was later linked to the Kremlin.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 7 Apr. 2022
• This is in contrast to an incident a year ago when U.S. intelligence agencies had video and other evidence of an actual attack involving sarin nerve gas.
  — Zeina Karam and Bassem Mroue, Fox News, 11 Apr. 2018
• These surfaces can attract and bind with many simple gas molecules such as methane, hydrogen and water, as well as more complex compounds, including pollutants and nerve gas agents.
  — Steven Ashley, Scientific American, 17 Nov. 2021
• In addition, many veterans diagnosed with GWS were exposed to chemicals, such as pesticides and nerve gas, that are known to damage mitochondria.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2014
• This air can be mixed with heated jet engine oil, hydraulic fluid and more, including certain chemical compounds that could also be found in insecticides, pesticides and nerve gases like Sarin gas.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2020
• Russia essentially blew off May's midnight deadline for an explanation of how deadly Novichok nerve gas appeared on the streets of the quiet medieval town of Salisbury, famous for its nearby ruins of Stonehenge.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• The American strikes were meant to disrupt bin Laden’s network and destroy some of al-Qaida’s infrastructure, such as a factory in Sudan associated with the production of a nerve gas ingredient.
  — Hope Yen, chicagotribune.com, 29 Oct. 2019
• As fascism, separatism, and antisemitism seep into our common spaces like nerve gas, as populations gird for battle and retrench into familiar camps, new barracks are going up all around us.
  — Elizabeth Svoboda, Longreads, 30 Apr. 2020
• Battelle researchers tested his fungal strains against neurotoxins and found one potent variety of psilocybin mushroom highly effective at breaking down VX nerve gas.
  — Kenneth Miller, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2013

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