How to Use poison in a Sentence

poison

1 of 2 noun
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  • The villain in the play dies by drinking a vial of poison.
  • The killer gave her victims food laced with poison.
  • Poverty is a poison to society.
  • The inside of the wall is hot, with rat poison on the floors and stale air.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • My mom yelled at me to stop and told me the spray was poison.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • And even in the midst of all that hard work, this poison, like a ghost, comes in and snatches it from them.
    — ELLE, 13 Mar. 2023
  • But scientists had to figure out a way to get the snakes to snack on the poison.
    — Bethany Brookshire, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
  • In a poisonous blowfish, the most delicious part of the fish is the closest to the poison.
    — Sara Klausing, Men's Health, 9 Dec. 2022
  • While many of the poison PDFs push people towards scams, not all of them do.
    — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2023
  • That means the poisons can also kill foxes, dogs and cats.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2024
  • This, too, gives IU’s offense a pick-your-poison-type feel.
    — Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The poison can kill even monstrous-sized roaches, and kills their eggs, too.
    — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Pick yer poison Or, as a non-pirate might put it, settle on a theme.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • People are killed with poisons, stabbed, thrown from the balcony of a museum, hit over the head with a large wrench.
    — Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • In 1989, metal is the preferred poison of blue-collar and mall-rat proles all over the world.
    — Dean Kuipers, SPIN, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Officials said the man's home was raided, but that no poison was found.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 8 Jan. 2023
  • The Park Service also doused the backwater with a fish-killing poison.
    — WIRED, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Homer says one cleaner found a cache of acorns and rat poison under some cushions.
    — Jura Koncius, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
  • At some point, that atom will decay, triggering a mechanism that breaks the vial of poison and kills the cat.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
  • If wine is your poison of choice, then look for places with corkage, which is different to B.Y.O.B.
    — Clare Finney, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2023
  • That’s right—poison flowing through his veins wasn’t going to stop Liam Hendriks from at least throwing the ball.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 10 July 2023
  • If the poison is on their skin, remove their clothes and rinse their skin with lukewarm water for at least 15 minutes.
    — Stacey Colino, Parents, 20 Sep. 2023
  • But when new hire Pumpkin challenges their ‘girl boss’ ways, the women are forced to face their own poisons or succumb to a bloody fate.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Some feed on the poison multiple times, upping the toxic loads in their bodies.
    — Zachary T. Sampson, Sun Sentinel, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Her body grows weaker and weaker as the poison courses through her little fish body.
    — Kathryn Kvas, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
  • One study on American bald eagles found rat poison in 83 percent of the dead birds.
    — Madeleine Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 27 July 2023
  • Considering these details, the poison pod might not seem to fit his ethos.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 9 Jan. 2023
  • But Nat—thankful for the empathy that Lisa showed her—pushes her out of the way, taking Misty's poison to the chest instead.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 29 May 2023
  • To counter this plot, the pharmacist also brings water as his poison.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2023
  • Sure, when the FDA was founded in 1906, it was basically given the power to stop the sale of outright poison.
    — Adam Feuerstein and Matthew Herper, STAT, 31 July 2023
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poison

2 of 2 verb
  • The factory poisoned the air with its fumes.
  • He was poisoned with cyanide.
  • How did the murderer poison the victim?
  • He poisoned their minds with hatred for her.
  • Illegal dumping of waste is poisoning the stream and killing fish.
  • His angry outburst poisoned the atmosphere of the party.
  • Hundreds were poisoned from drinking the contaminated water.
  • And schemes to dig up, drown, or poison the weed all have side effects.
    — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Isabel Isabel is the first to say her son (and his lizard) were poisoned.
    — Town & Country, 13 July 2023
  • Of course, for this strategy to work, the birds must avoid poisoning themselves.
    — Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The world has been stripped of life, the soil poisoned, all animals driven to extinction.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2023
  • On occasion, cats have been found shot, stabbed or poisoned.
    — The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The Kremlin denied trying to kill him and said there was no evidence he was poisoned with a nerve agent.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Raff and Kroh spoke of others that had been poisoned or had simply gone missing, as cats will do when coyotes are present.
    — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Calves died, as did some adult cows, and some settlers thought cattle were poisoning themselves at wells and springs.
    — Will McCarthy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • The court said that Mr. Xu had plotted to poison Mr. Lin and four other people over an office dispute.
    — David Pierson, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Sebastian left this world not by his will but poisoned by fentanyl.
    — Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • She has been charged with her husband’s murder, accused of poisoning him with a lethal dose of fentanyl.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
  • The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that he had been poisoned in his home.
    — James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • In May, the author of a children's book on grief was accused of killing her husband by poisoning him with a lethal dose of fentanyl at their home in Utah.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Before that, there were cases of women being stabbed, shot or poisoned by their partners or those known to them.
    — Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Her teeth are poisoning her from inside her mouth, and her diarrhea is back.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Why go to all this crazy trouble of poisoning his underwear?
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Toxic lakebed dust will keep poisoning millions of people living on the Wasatch Front.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The risk of gas stoves poisoning kids is a material problem.
    — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
  • If it is proven that the students were poisoned, the perpetrators of this crime should be severely punished.
    — Nima Elbagir, CNN, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Oppenheimer sneaks out anyway to see the lecture and then poisons the apple on Blackett’s desk.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 27 July 2023
  • But in 2023, higher rates ended up poisoning a handful of them.
    — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023
  • From politicians to militia leaders, many who cross Putin end up dead — often poisoned or blown up in airplanes or by car bombs.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The attacks have raised fears that other girls could be poisoned, apparently just for going to school.
    — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 5 Mar. 2023

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