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• They were taken unawares and overcome when the room filled with a lethal, odorless gas.From the entry odorless
• They were taken unawares and overcome when the room filled with a lethal, odourless gas.From the entry odourless
• The death row convict was strapped into the gurney in order to be given the lethal injection.From the entry gurney
• A lethal dose 50 will cause the death of 50% of a sample of test animals.From the entry lethal dose
• That high a neutron flux would be lethal in seconds.From the entry flux
• Circumstances arose that warranted the use of lethal force.From the entry warrant
• Sarin is a clear and odourless substance that is classed as a potentially lethal nerve agent.2022 April 18, Paul Withers, “Putin chemical weapon horror: Ukrainian mayor says 'remains' of sarin found after retreat”, in Daily Express. From the entry sarin
• Do your lethal addictions to self-prescriptions numb the ache of the darkest days?2019, “Chemical Christ”, in Human Target (Deathcore), performed by Thy Art is Murder. From the entry addiction
• Any ship nearby will receive a lethal dose of gamma rays, neutrons, and other radioactives.2016, Travis S. Taylor, Les Johnson, On to the Asteroid. From the entry radioactive
• Thus, one finds individuals dead of a gunshot wound with potentially lethal levels of drugs.2015, Vincent J. M. DiMaio, Gunshot Wounds. From the entry of
• While H5N1 flu is obviously lethal, some milder flus pose a greater societal threat, Professor Mathews says.2010, Malcolm Knox, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 46. From the entry societal
• In children, leukemia was most commonly ALL—lymphoblastic leukemia—and was almost always swiftly lethal.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 17. From the entry all
• Petersen says the lethal consequences of overprescribed or misprescribed drugs are too readily accepted as “natural” death.2008 March 17, Janet Maslin, “The Case for Another Drug War, Against Pharmaceutical Marketers’ Dirty Tactics”, in New York Times. From the entry misprescribe
• The Martini is nicknamed “the silver bullet” because of its supposedly lethal properties.[2003, Lowell Edmunds, Martini, Straight Up: The Classic American Cocktail, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 64. From the entry silver bullet
• Ichthyotoxicity among respective pavoninins did not differ much, all being lethal to Japanese killifish at 5-10 ppm.1993, David H. Attaway, Marine Biotechnology Volume 1: Pharmaceutical and Bioactive Natural Products. From the entry ichthyotoxicity
• Water temperatures can increase in summer and decrease in winter encouraging lethal anchor ice problems.1989, The Greater Yellowstone Postfire Assessment, Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee, page 84. From the entry overstream
• Dioxins are lethal, capable of killing people in concentrations as diluted as one part in a million.1986, Benjamin Walter, Malcolm Getz, “Social and Economic Effects of Toxic Waste Disposal”, in Sheldon Kamieniecki, Robert O’Brien…. From the entry dioxin
• Prepare your lethal weapon while I hobnob for the last time with cabbages and kings.”1926 July 22, “The Crow’s-Nest”, in The Royal Gazette and Colonist Daily, volume 6, number 172, Hamilton, Bermuda, →OCLC, page 3. From the entry asinicide
• But Youngkin's biggest and most lethal project appears to be turning Virginia into a COVIDy cesspool like Florida.2022 January 17, Joy Reid, The ReidOut, spoken by Joy Reid, via MSNBC. From the entry covidy
• It would require moving Nylander to his offwing on the left, from which he can be lethal with his shot.2019, Wilbert Timmermans, “Toronto Maple Leafs: Solving the John Tavares Conundrum”, in Fansided. From the entry offwing
• You can’t build walls in order to prevent the next airborne lethal flu from landing on our shores.2016 October, Scott Dadich, quoting Barack Obama, “Barack Obama Talks AI, Robo Cars, and the Future of the World”, in Wired, →ISSN. From the entry pandemic
• Mice with lethal bordetellosis indicated by ruffled fur, hunched stature, and limited responsiveness were euthanized to prevent unnecessary suffering.2015 October 21, “Type Six Secretion System of Bordetella bronchiseptica and Adaptive Immune Components Limit Intracellular Survival…. From the entry bordetellosis
• Conservative procontrol values (including importance of crime prevention and support for extensive police powers) correlate positively with lethal violence.2014, Tapio Lappi-Seppälä et al., “Cross-Comparative Perspectives on Global Homicide Trends”, in Crime and Justice, volume 43, number 1…. From the entry procontrol
• Murray had mistakenly administered a much larger dose of propofol than he realized, one that was lethal to his patient.2012, Randall Sullivan, Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry propofol
• The most commonly suggested method of eugenicide in America was a "lethal chamber" or public locally operated gas chambers.2012, Trent Goodbaudy, The Rebirth of Mankind: Homo Evolutis, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry eugenicide
• But Josef's snake was in a state of such rage and pain that it vengefully administered a legful of lethal anaesthetic.2011, Louis de Bernières, The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman, page 313. From the entry vengefully
• When it occurs, choriocarcinoma is thus a double tragedy: an abnormal pregnancy compounded by a lethal malignancy, birth tipped into death.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 135. From the entry choriocarcinoma
• Clinicide can also be detected by the substantiation of injurious, unnecessary, and potentially lethal medical procedures or treatment.2010, Joshua A. Perper, Stephen J. Cina, “To Catch a Killer: Investigating Serial Murders”, in When Doctors Kill: Who, Why, and How, New…. From the entry clinicide
• The krogan evolved in a lethal ecology.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Krogan: Biology Codex entry. From the entry quintessential
• Lethal injection or some other Kevorkianesque technique?2007, Michael Shermer, The Mind of the Market. From the entry Kevorkianesque
• In this gene, other mutations can cause a kind of nanism that is lethal during the first weeks of life.2006 April, Henri Friedhofer et al., “Surgical treatment for eyelid deformity in Crouzon syndrome associated with acanthosis nigricans…. From the entry nanism
• Miss O'Neil's duplicitous power-mad ice queen epitomizes cruel hauteur with a streak of lethal saccharine—she is a nightmare stepmother.1986 October 5, Stephen Holden, “Drama: 'Narnia' A Children's Musical”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Jan 2014. From the entry ice queen
• A complicating feature of conifers, when estimating the number of lethals, is that polyembryos are common during seed development.1977, M. Thompson Conkle, Knobcone Pine Self Compatibility and Isozyme Inheritance, page 61. From the entry polyembryo
• Thus the gene which produced atavistic digits in the vigorous heterozygous pentadactyl condition is a lethal monster in the homozygous condition.1946, Reginald Ruggles Gates, Human genetics. From the entry atavistic
• The good dogs get the bones and pats and the bad ones get into the lethal chamber at Battersea.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry Battersea
• After numerous rough but not lethal hand-to-hand scuffles in the past, the island became the epicenter of a pitched battle and weeks-long exchange of fire.2021 March 29, Blake Herzinger, “China’s Military Could Turn Small Clashes Into Major Conflicts”, in Foreign Policy, archived from the…. From the entry Zhenbao Island
• If Covid-19 eventually imbues human beings with some humility, it’s possible that we will, after all, be receptive to the lessons of this lethal pandemic.2020 April 9, Richard Horton, “Coronavirus is the greatest global science policy failure in a generation”, in The Guardian, archived from…. From the entry exceptionalism
• One animal in the VP group developed cerebral infarction and showed symptoms of hemiparalysis, and was humanely euthanized by a lethal dose of pentobarbital sodium.2015 August 20, “Mesenchymal Stem Cells Stabilize Atherosclerotic Vulnerable Plaque by Anti-Inflammatory Properties”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry hemiparalysis
• They turned and ran dogward while I, motivated by their scorn, moved off lethargically through the vines, thorns, and creepers, a caricature of lethal determination.2015, Herb Payson, Blown Away, page 115. From the entry dogward

Meaning of lethal

1. adjective Of, pertaining to, or causing death; deadly; mortal; fatal.
2. noun Any weapon that causes death.
3. noun An allele that causes the death of the organism that carries it.

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How do you use lethal in a sentence?

Lethal is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “They were taken unawares and overcome when the room filled with a lethal, odorless gas.”

What is a short sentence with lethal?

“Lethal injection or some other Kevorkianesque technique?”

What does lethal mean?

Lethal means of, pertaining to, or causing death; deadly; mortal; fatal.