How to Use weapon of mass destruction in a Sentence

weapon of mass destruction

noun phrase

• Any weapon that can be defeated by a net isn't a weapon of mass destruction.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2017
• Routh was convicted of possession of a weapon of mass destruction, a felony.
  — Tovia Smith, NPR, 21 Sep. 2024
• Bjorn was charged with a second-degree felony for making a false report of a bomb, arson or weapon of mass destruction.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024
• In the present day, although the scenario is different, Putin is also using food as a weapon of mass destruction.
  — Ihor N. Stelmach, Hartford Courant, 23 Apr. 2024
• In 2002, court records state, he was convicted of possessing a weapon of mass destruction — a machine gun.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024
• The broader tragedy for both brothers was that the creation of the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction—a thing too horrible ever to use—didn’t much change how people viewed war.
  — Kc Cole, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
• There have always been two facts in tension: on the one hand, Oppenheimer helped create a weapon of mass destruction that was used to kill hundreds of thousands of people.
  — Megan McCluskey, Time, 25 July 2023
• If social media is the equivalent of a weapon of mass destruction, then Jack Dorsey would be a contender for the digital era’s Robert Oppenheimer.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 6 June 2024
• Watch on Russia has been happy to threaten the use of this weird weapon of mass destruction prior to its operational deployment.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2023
• The fairy princesses go on strike, the evil Stepmother gets spiteful with a plan that goes sadly wrong, and the narrator rages, deploying banishment as a weapon of mass destruction.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 22 June 2023
• Their plan is to turn the small New Mexico burg of Los Alamos into a self-sufficient, family-friendly town for a group of scientists and a top-secret think tank for a weapon of mass destruction.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2023
• This suburban crisis is fueling a narrative of fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, aimed at naive victims who don’t know the fake pills contain poison.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• After a three-week trial, a federal jury found Beal, of Long Beach, guilty of using a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death, and three other felonies related to the explosion.
  — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
• Last year a group of Republican attorneys general asked the president to declare fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction.
  — Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2023
• Go back to the beginning and see where our modern superhero craze really became a cinematic weapon of mass destruction.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 3 June 2024
• The fear of terrorists using aircraft as a weapon of mass destruction remained as a real threat, especially considering Ground Zero was only a few miles south.
  — Donald J. Mihalek, ABC News, 6 July 2024
• McVeigh committed federal crimes, such as use of a weapon of mass destruction on federal property and the murder of federal law enforcement officers.
  — Stefanie Lindquist, The Conversation, 15 Aug. 2023
• Despite the ongoing efforts to acquire a weapon of mass destruction, the March 2023 document notes, encouragingly, that the terrorist group’s ambitions were severely undermined by the collapse of the caliphate.
  — Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2023
• Routh has a lengthy rap sheet, including a 2002 conviction for possession of a weapon of mass destruction, as well as many social media profiles currently under investigation.
  — Emily Chang, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2024
• Republicans have described the Mexican criminal drug-trafficking networks as a national security threat, with some calling fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction.
  — Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024