6 sentences with 'poison'
Example sentences and phrases with the word poison and other words derived from it.
• « Napoleon even attempted suicide, drinking the poison he had carried for years in case he was captured, but the poison was mostly inert because of its age and simply made him ill (after his recovery, his self-confidence quickly returned). »
• « In 1915, in a vain attempt to break the stalemate, both sides began using poison gas, which was utterly horrific, burning the lungs, eyes and skin of the combatants. The survivors of the poison gas attacks were considered the unfortunate ones. »
• « To his delight, World War I broke out while he was already in Germany; Hitler eagerly volunteered for the German army and served on the western front, surviving both a poison gas attack and shrapnel from an exploding shell. »
• « In 1984, the year production began at the facility in the Iraqi city of Samarra, the New York Times published many details about the poison gas factories that the Germans had set up in Iraq, as did the German press after Iraq's large-scale use of chemical weapons against Iran, also in 1984. »
• « But researchers in Wales have developed what they have dubbed the "superbug": a micro-organism that proliferates happily, feeding on all those substances that poison the soil, transforming them into a completely harmless "something else". »