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Poison in sentence

260 examples of Poison in a sentence

The chair could collapse if you sit on it, the apple might be poison, the dog might not bark, and in fact, this is my dog Tessie, who doesn't bark.
She must say an incantation to cast the poison out.
After she utters the last line, she tries to cut the poison out with a knife for good measure.
As a 10-year-old, along with my siblings, I dreamt of scraping off the poison from fly-killer paper into his coffee, grounded down glass and sprinkling it over his breakfast, loosening the carpet on the stairs so he would trip and break his neck.
They have grieved it, they have died into it, and allowed and encouraged poison to turn into medicine.
Mama Jane, on the right, told me her biggest fear was that she would poison her grandson, whom she'd never seen, because she couldn't see what she was cooking for him.
This is the poison that will actually end the tumor cell's life.
In fact, co-wives can fight with each other, sometimes they can even poison each other's children.
We use shower heads to deliver poison gas, letters with anthrax, airplanes as weapons, mass rape as a military strategy.
The truly awful truth is that the very last thing that most of us will do on this earth is poison it.
What's certain is, all the guerrillas' manipulation was so damaging to us that even today, among some of the hostages from back then, tensions linger, passed down from all that poison that the guerrillas created.
But if it's that poison, it's also the antidote.
Because when you watch your person fill himself with poison for three years, just so he can stay alive a little bit longer with you, that stays with you.
But there's no bears, and there's no poison oak, and there's basically no people because this place has been empty for a long time.
This is actually a real advertisement for rat poison from the late 1800s.
We wanted to see if the most common fish in the deep ocean, at the base of the food chain, was ingesting these poison pills.
They outlawed fishing with poison and mosquito nets and set aside permanent refuges around threatened coral reefs and mangroves, including, to my astonishment, those same sights that I'd flagged just two years earlier when my evangelism for marine protection was so roundly rejected.
But unbeknownst to Yusupov, one of his co-conspirators had a change of heart, and substituted the poison with a harmless substance.
They even fight back with pesticides that purposefully poison wasps, and inadvertently impact a wide-range of local wildlife.
Women gave poison to their babies, and watched foam come from their mouths as they died.
It's a self-induced poison.
In nearby Africa, poachers intentionally poison carcasses to prevent the birds’ presence from alerting authorities to their location.
According to poetic accounts, he once carved runes on a horn filled with poison, causing the horn to shatter.
Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison.
But the powder is labeled "Deadly Poison," so Grace thinks that the powder is a deadly poison.
Whereas if she thinks the powder was poison, even though it's really sugar, now people say she deserves a lot of blame, even though what happened in the real world was exactly the same.
Where Grace thought the powder was sugar, because it was labeled "sugar" and by the coffee machine, but actually the powder was poison.
So even though when the powder was poison, the friend drank the coffee and died, people say Grace deserves less blame in that case, when she innocently thought it was sugar, than in the other case, where she thought it was poison and no harm occurred.
But in the case of a failed attempt to harm, where Grace thought that it was poison, although it was really sugar, people now say it was more okay, she deserves less blame for putting the powder in the coffee.
And in the case of the accident, where she thought that it was sugar, but it was really poison and so she caused a death, people say that it was less okay, she deserves more blame.
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