How to Use sarin in a Sentence

sarin

noun

• Nerve agents such as sarin are typically used in the form of a gas or vapour.
  — Martin Boland, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2018
• Did Assad want Sellström to tell the world that Syria had sarin and had used it?
  — Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2021
• Russians were stationed at Shayrat Air Base — which is not large — and ought to have known that sarin was stashed there.
  — Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 12 Apr. 2017
• Even a small drop on the skin of nerve agents like sarin can cause sweating and muscle twitching at point of contact.
  — Allison Barrie, Fox News, 13 July 2018
• Among the crucial questions is whether victims of the attack in Douma were killed by chlorine or sarin.
  — Julian E. Barnes, WSJ, 4 May 2018
• While chlorine works more slowly and is less efficient than sarin, both can kill.
  — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 12 Apr. 2018
• As far back as the mid-1980s, the CIA claimed that the Syrian regime was capable of producing nearly eight tons of sarin per month.
  — chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• Days after the Latamneh strikes, sarin was used in an attack at nearby Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province, killing scores.
  — Washington Post, 13 June 2018
• Aum's scientists had built a vast automated plant to mass-produce sarin, the Nazi nerve gas that would prove their weapon of choice.
  — David E. Kaplan and Andrew Marshall, WIRED, 1 July 1996
• Nearly 100 people were killed in the northern town of Khan Sheikhoun in an apparent sarin attack.
  — Amanda Erickson, chicagotribune.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• Trump ordered a missile strike last April after a sarin attack killed dozens of people in Idlib province.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, latimes.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• An earlier sarin gas attack by the cult in central Japan in 1994 killed seven people.
  — Alastair Gale, WSJ, 6 July 2018
• The crisis ended, but gases including chlorine and sarin would be used again—as before, with blame placed on each side by the other.
  — Charles Glass, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• Ayrault said France reached the conclusion after comparing samples from a 2013 sarin attack in Syria that matched the new ones.
  — Mike Corder, The Seattle Times, 28 Apr. 2017
• Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult left sarin, a deadly nerve agent, in plastic bags on subway cars and poked the bags with umbrellas before fleeing.
  — Washington Post, 6 July 2018
• This isn’t the first time eastern Ghouta is in the news: In the summer of 2013, government forces attacked the neighborhood with a chemical gas called sarin.
  — Annabell Van Den Berghe, Teen Vogue, 15 Mar. 2018
• This is how trained specialists dispose of chemical weapons like sarin.
  — Ian Haydon, Scientific American, 11 Apr. 2017
• An expert at a security consulting firm tried to be helpful, telling her that sarin is not gas.
  — George F. Will, The Denver Post, 28 Jan. 2017
• For terrorists, sarin would be the nerve agent of choice to inflict mass casualties because of its high volatility and rapid uptake in the body.
  — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 19 Mar. 2018
• Sources inside Syria are that a sarin-gas attack in Idlib Province killed dozens of civilians and injured hundreds more on Tuesday.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2017
• On March 24, the team found, a Syrian fighter jet dropped a bomb carrying sarin on the village, sickening 16 people.
  — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
• 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
• No casualties were reported as a result of the raid, which was a response to the regime’s suspected use of chlorine and sarin on civilians in the town of Douma, killing dozens of people.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• The Syrian government is believed to have used sarin and chlorine gas on a number of occasions.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2018
• It can also be used to manufacture chemical weapons, such as sarin and VX gases.
  — Mayumi Negishi and Alastair Gale, WSJ, 10 July 2019
• Farha’s cloth specifically destroys the nerve agents VX and soman, also known as GD, which is a more toxic relative of sarin.
  — Sophia Chen, Wired, 4 Feb. 2020
• Trump ordered an attack last April against the Shayrat air base after a warplane at the base dropped bombs on another town allegedly containing the nerve agent sarin.
  — W.j. Hennigan, Time, 14 Apr. 2018
• This dynamic played out most starkly in Syria, in the aftermath of the August 2013 sarin gas attack in Ghouta.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
• Last month, the U.S. fired cruise missiles on a government air base after accusing Assad's military of killing scores of civilians with a sarin-like nerve agent.
  — Bloomberg.com, 16 May 2017
• Nerve agents such as sarin or VX have been the main components of chemical weapons for 60 years and, for obvious reasons, are closely controlled substances.
  — Owen Matthews, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2018

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