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How to use poison in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Poison means a substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested. Example: “We used a poison to kill the weeds.”

Examples of poison by meaning

nounA substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.

  • We used a poison to kill the weeds.

nounAnything harmful to a person or thing.

  • Gossip is a malicious poison.

nounAny substance that inhibits catalytic activity.

  • The temperature effect of poisons.2013, Huazhang Liu, Ammonia Synthesis Catalysts: Innovation and Practice, page 693

verbTo use poison to kill or paralyse (somebody).

  • The assassin poisoned the king.

verbTo pollute; to cause to become poisonous.

  • That factory is poisoning the river.

verbTo cause to become much worse.

  • Suspicion will poison their relationship.
  • He poisoned the mood in the room with his non-stop criticism.

verbTo cause (someone) to hate or to have unfair negative opinions.

  • She's poisoned him against all his old friends.

verbTo place false or malicious data into (a cache, etc.) as part of an exploit.

  • In this technique, the hacker poisons the cache to launch malware into Web pages.2013, Ronald L. Mendell, Investigating Information-based Crimes, page 93

More sentences with poison

  • The poison had been passed by the time of the autopsy.From the entry pass
  • The migration of lead from a can to the food inside it can cause lead poisoning.From the entry migration
  • She's in the camp that speaks as if all vaccines were poisons.From the entry camp
  • Severe radiation poisoning results in the total denudation of the gastrointestinal tract.From the entry denudation
  • The forensic examiners detected tiny traces of the poison on the suspect's gloves.From the entry detect
  • Seizures can be caused by exposure to certain poisons or toxins.From the entry seizure
  • This box contained rat poison, now it contains a dead rat.From the entry contained
  • He was lethally poisoned by the cobra and died a day later of it.From the entry lethally
  • Although he's obviously hungover, he's trying to play it off as food poisoning.From the entry play off
  • Between the car accident, the food poisoning and the lost keys, the holiday was an omnishambles.From the entry omnishambles
  • Wrist drop was formerly encountered among painters, as a result of lead poisoning.From the entry wrist drop
  • She's been down on clams since a bad case of food poisoning; she's lost her appetite for them.From the entry down
  • Two ingredients are combined in a binary poison.From the entry binary
  • The livestock were poisoned by what they grazed on.From the entry livestock
  • The runoff of nitrates is poisoning the lake.From the entry runoff
  • We'll use poison to exterminate the rats.From the entry exterminate
  • Only licensed exterminators can purchase rat poison in this state.From the entry licensed
  • The snake left its poisoned prey to die.From the entry poisoned
  • The hunters began to fire their poisoned darts.From the entry poisoned
  • Theriac was essentially homeopathic in its supposed function, being an improvement on mithridate by virtue of containing more poisons.From the entry theriac
  • " Diazinon is an insecticide and acaricide with stomach poison and contact activity. It has a wide range of pest-control applications and has long residual effects."From the entry diazinon
  • Ripping out the poison of antisemitism, restoring trust on the economy, defence, and national security.2026 June 22, Keir Starmer, resignation speech. From the entry rip out
  • The Tiiv of Nigeria kept bees in special horns containing powdered poisons.2023, Paul Chrystal, Bioterrorism & Biological Warfare: Disease as a Weapon of War. From the entry Tiiv
  • There are reasons Twitter may opt not to do a poison pill.2022 April 14, Lauren Hirsch, “What happens next in Musk’s Twitter takeover offer.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry poison pill
  • “It only takes a few demagogues to pump antisemitic poison into the bloodstream of a political party.2021 January 15, Melissa Weiss, Sam Zieve Cohen, quoting Ritchie Torres, “Ritchie Torres vows to prevent the ‘Corbynization’ of…. From the entry Corbynization
  • The poisoning also turned Novichok into something of a Russian calling card.2020 September 2, “Aleksei Navalny Was Poisoned With Novichok, Germany Says”, in New York Times. From the entry calling card
  • Lithium mining, for example, is now poisoning rivers and depleting groundwater from Tibet to Bolivia.2019, George Monbiot, “Cars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out”, in Guardian.. From the entry lithium
  • Listeria is a food poisoning bacterium that is psychrotrophic – in other words it likes cold temperatures.2018 January 15, Kaarin Goodburn, “How chilled is your fridge?”, in Food Standards Agency. From the entry listeria
  • In the dungeons, Cersei kisses Tyene Sand with poison on her lips.2017 July 30, Ali Barthwell, “Ice and fire finally meet in a front-loaded episode of Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club. From the entry chain up
  • They let a bittersome poison creep into their hearts, concerning the failings of people.2016, Graham Richardson, Standing and Waiting. From the entry bittersome
  • The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death.2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884. From the entry worker

Meaning of poison

  1. noun A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.
  2. noun Anything harmful to a person or thing.
  3. noun An alcoholic drink. (Mainly in the phrases "name your poison" and "what's your poison?").

Full definition of poison

Questions about poison in a sentence

How do you use poison in a sentence?
Poison is used as a noun and verb. For example: “We used a poison to kill the weeds.”
What is a short sentence with poison?
“Gossip is a malicious poison.”
What does poison mean?
Poison means a substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poison (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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