Example sentences for: poisoned

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

  • That is why countries with a history of runaway inflation, like Argentina, often come to the conclusion that monetary independence is a poisoned chalice.

  • It's the beginning of what Bill McKibben called "the end of nature"--that is, when nature became no longer an autonomous, self-regulating force but one touched (and, in Miyazaki's view, poisoned) by human industry.

  • A British press furore about dog poisoning in Italy--sparked off, as it were, by Muriel Spark's disclosure last weekend that five of her dogs have been poisoned at her home in Tuscany--finally reverberated in Italy Friday when La Repubblica of Rome asked in a front-page headline: "Who killed Muriel's dogs?"

  • With the eclipse behind us, I'm glad to see that you are finding other outlets for your nature appreciation in NYC, even if it is limited to clucking over coverage of Central Park's poisoned birds.

  • With a city practice, he treats several cases each year of dogs poisoned maliciously by next-door neighbors, perhaps objecting to the noise.


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