How to Use chemical warfare in a Sentence

chemical warfare

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  • Chlorine gas, on the other hand, has been used as a weapon in chemical warfare.
    — George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 18 Feb. 2013
  • All tanks and wheeled vehicles from the past 50 years have been tested at APG, and chemical warfare research is performed at the proving ground.
    — Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2022
  • Drug and chemical warfare was sort of a parallel arms race alongside the nuclear arms race.
    — David Lipset, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The remaining recruits are tested with a chemical warfare challenge and reveal what inspired them to sign up for the show.
    — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Or mechlorethamine, a 1940s weapon of chemical warfare turned cancer-fighting agent now used in chemotherapy drugs.
    — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 13 June 2022
  • The tear-producing—or lachrymatory—effect of onions is a type of chemical warfare used by the plants to ward off would-be predators and knife-wielding chefs alike.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 23 Aug. 2017
  • The alkyl chloride and organophosphate precursors are toxic, but not nearly to the degree of VX, which was developed in the 1950s for chemical warfare and is the most potent of all nerve agents.
    — Ben Otto, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
  • At the time, military officials thought that gas masks would work better on clean-shaven troops, and chemical warfare was common during the war.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 3 May 2017
  • Phosphine is poisonous to many animals, and the colorless, flammable gas has been used in chemical warfare and by farmers to snuff out tenacious pests.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Phosphine has been used as a fumigant or a chemical warfare agent, but that wasn’t why Sousa-Silva was interested in it.
    — Eva Amsen, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The allegations prompted the United States to accuse what was then the Soviet Union and its allies of chemical warfare.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 20 May 2022
  • Sometimes armor isn't quite enough, and chemical warfare is required.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 13 July 2020
  • These explosives, as well as other chemical warfare agents, can be toxic to marine life.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Some ant species care for extensive gardens (admittedly of fungus), engage in war (and use chemical warfare!) and some even keep slaves.
    — Lavie Tidhar, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Hundreds of thousands of species of reptile, insect, spider, snail and jellyfish, among other creatures, have mastered the art of chemical warfare with venom.
    — New York Times, 3 May 2022
  • Based on comments by the president and his senior advisers, the bombing represents a more forceful way of telling the Syrians to abstain from chemical warfare.
    — Phillip Carter, Slate Magazine, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Trump responded a year ago to a previous allegation of chemical warfare with a missile strike in Syria.
    — Mark Niquette, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Either way, nerve agents are horrendously lethal and chemical warfare is an obscene use of chemicals.
    — Simon Cotton, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2018
  • But some experts hold that smaller-scale uses of chemical agents and Russia’s involvement in the Syria conflict show that Mr. Putin has a clear attachment to chemical warfare.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2022
  • Two women were seen on security cameras walking up to him and rubbing a substance on his face — a chemical warfare agent known as VX, the United States later determined.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2018
  • The solution is an escalation on our part — chemical warfare.
    — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 29 June 2021
  • The only way to truly guarantee an end to chemical warfare attacks would be an invasion to overthrow Assad, something on the scale of the Iraq war, which neither president has wanted to contemplate.
    — David Lauter, latimes.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Following the horrors of World War I a century ago, civilized nations joined together to ban chemical warfare.
    — Jen Kirby, Vox, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Back in World War I, soldiers weren’t the only casualties of chemical warfare; the laborers who filled shells with toxic gas also suffered overwhelming injury rates.
    — Wil Sands, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023
  • His biggest coup was providing the Brits with the design of a chemical warfare dispersal device manufactured from parts that could be found in a tool shed and was capable of spreading deadly cyanogen chloride or other agents.
    — NBC News, 17 June 2018
  • Gordon says his past in the U.S. Army, working as a nuclear and biological chemical warfare specialist, led him to question the role of face masks in preventing transmission of the coronavirus.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The drones’ potential military value, ironically, had been noted by Russia’s government, which last year seized four aircraft of the same model in eastern Ukraine and claimed that Kyiv was planning to use them for chemical warfare.
    — Joby Warrick, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
  • Defending Ukraine still uses Soviet-era books, and emphasizes how to pack an emergency bag and first-aid techniques as well as coping with chemical warfare and handling assault rifles.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Analysts nonetheless see the threat of chemical warfare as real because Mr. Putin has long shown a willingness to ignore the international ban on chemical weapons.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2022
  • Since then, she’s forged a career as an emergency medicine physician, interviewed veterans of chemical warfare and moved into private practice in the booming wellness industry.
    — Lauren Hepler, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2022

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