Example sentences for: poison

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

  • Having packed these two poisonous assumptions into the word "voucher," Gore is now injecting that poison into Bradley's health-care proposal by applying the same word to both contexts.

  • Issue 2 is Hillary Clinton's failure to quickly denounce an assertion by Yasser Arafat's wife that Israel had used poison gas on Palestinians.

  • Boston writer Jonathan Harr, in the book the movie is based on, went beyond the poison in the Woburn wells to evoke (stopping just short of libel) the poison of the civil courts, where platoons of overpaid corporate lawyers can drive opponents with pockets less deep and psyches less stable into bankruptcy and hysteria.

  • Ah, there's a Schwarzenegger figure from The Last Action Hero ! There's the Riddler from Batman Forever and Poison Ivy from Batman & Robin ! And they're all yours for 80 percent off.

  • I don't think it would be an exaggeration to say that you frequently see grittier reporting on VH1's Behind the Music , especially the part where Bush was so overcome with emotion while reading a letter he wrote to a 7-year-old girl whose father had been killed in battle during his administration that he was unable to continue, and had to hand the task over to the Donaldson (on 20/20 --that's never happened on Behind the Music , although I didn't watch every minute of the one on Poison, so you never know).


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