Example sentences for: gas

How can you use “gas” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Potassium iodide can be used at dinner as a salt substitute; Morton salt includes significant amounts of it as an additive because iodine (like chlorine, a valence-1 halogen and a gas in its natural state) is necessary to the proper functioning of our thyroid glands.

  • A story in Asahi Shimbun of Japan revealed that Aum Shinrikyo, the cult that attacked the Tokyo subway with Sarin nerve gas in 1995, is enjoying a resurgence based in part on the financial security provided by a chain of successful computer stores affiliated with the group.

  • He added the non sequitur that nerve gas is more of a threat "to our children than global warming."

  • Sulfur hexafluoride (SF 6 ) was used to generate a tracer gas decay curve.

  • Since I wrote about this in the New Republic in 1990, more information has emerged about Buchanan's bizarre argument--a specious comparison of the gas chambers at Treblinka and an accident in which schoolchildren survived inhaling diesel exhaust fumes in an underground tunnel.


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