gas mask
noun
: a mask connected to a chemical air filter and used to protect the face and lungs from toxic gases
broadly
: respirator sense 1
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The suspect was seen on surveillance video wearing black clothes — a facemask or gas mask, gloves and boots — and a headlamp and some sort of GoPro-style camera, according to police.
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Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 9 Apr. 2024
A couple of weeks prior, the state had strapped a gas mask on a death-row inmate named Kenneth Smith—Kenny, as he was known to Stevenson, who consulted with Smith’s lawyers—and pumped nitrogen gas into his lungs.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
More than two decades later, in 1995, the cartoonist Seymour Chwast portrayed a man shaving with a gas mask on his face.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
With his voice rising to a shout, the judge pointed to photos in evidence showing members of Johnson’s crew wearing gas masks while mixing drugs.
—Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2024
While Osbourne's glam makeup look was can't-miss, Wilson opted to hide his face with a full, black gas mask.
—Lindsay Kimble, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2024
During a search of his home, authorities found a Nazi flag and memorabilia, a gas mask and gas cans, among other items.
—Dakin Andone, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
The execution was carried out on Thursday night and marked the first time nitrogen hypoxia, a process that aims to cause asphyxiation by forcing an individual to inhale pure nitrogen or lethally high concentrations of it through a gas mask, was used to execute someone.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2024
During the execution, officials said Smith will be strapped to a gurney chamber and forced to breathe nitrogen through a gas mask until his body is depleted entirely of oxygen and shuts down.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2024
Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 9 Apr. 2024
A couple of weeks prior, the state had strapped a gas mask on a death-row inmate named Kenneth Smith—Kenny, as he was known to Stevenson, who consulted with Smith’s lawyers—and pumped nitrogen gas into his lungs.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
More than two decades later, in 1995, the cartoonist Seymour Chwast portrayed a man shaving with a gas mask on his face.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
With his voice rising to a shout, the judge pointed to photos in evidence showing members of Johnson’s crew wearing gas masks while mixing drugs.
—Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2024
While Osbourne's glam makeup look was can't-miss, Wilson opted to hide his face with a full, black gas mask.
—Lindsay Kimble, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2024
During a search of his home, authorities found a Nazi flag and memorabilia, a gas mask and gas cans, among other items.
—Dakin Andone, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
The execution was carried out on Thursday night and marked the first time nitrogen hypoxia, a process that aims to cause asphyxiation by forcing an individual to inhale pure nitrogen or lethally high concentrations of it through a gas mask, was used to execute someone.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2024
During the execution, officials said Smith will be strapped to a gurney chamber and forced to breathe nitrogen through a gas mask until his body is depleted entirely of oxygen and shuts down.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2024
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