7 sentences with 'poisonous'
Example sentences and phrases with the word poisonous and other words derived from it.
• « "For 30 years Germany has not authorised arms exports to Iraq. Yet certain Germans broke our laws, misled the authorities and participated in Saddam Hussein's production of poisonous gases. Our society must ostracise them. »
• « Born from a cross between a cobra and a plant, the Darlingtonia swells its poisonous calyx and opens its snake-toothed "hooks" in the acid swamps and jungles of New Guinea and Central America. The pollen-seeking intruder slips down the waxed slope of the satanic urn. It then descends into hell, drowned at the bottom of the cavity that houses the corpses being ingested. »
• « Arsenic is very famous for the sudden and lethal effects of its poisonous derivatives, but less so for its therapeutic qualities in leukaemias, anaemias, in states of inadequate ossification, and in the devitalisation of the dental pulp. »
• « Arsenical copper declined in favour of alloying copper with tin, possibly because of the poisonous effects of arsenic. It is likely that during smelting, the fumes caused cases of poisoning, so more innocuous compounds were sought. If so, this would be the first case of a "toxic cloud" in ancient times, and the resulting reactions. »
• « Botanists claim that there is no way or means to be sure whether mushrooms are poisonous or not. »
• « But photosynthesis released oxygen, a corrosive and poisonous gas hitherto absent from the earth's atmosphere, a new pollutant that literally burned prokaryotes alive. »
• « The sweat glands are located under the skin; they absorb poisonous waste products from the blood and carry them through special ducts to the pores, where they are released to the outside. »