How to Use diazinon in a Sentence

diazinon

noun
  • Two of the children died after drinking a concentrated solution of the pesticide diazinon.
    Andrew Theen, OregonLive.com, 2018-04-07
  • The city is required to cap the amount of bacteria, metals and the insecticide diazinon of the water body, which is state and federally recognized as impaired.
    Joshua Emerson Smith, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2017-08-09
  • By 1966, some of the critters had also evolved resistance to then-popular pesticides such as malathion, diazinon and fenthion.
    Rob Dunn, Discover Magazine, 2018-11-16
  • Their exponential increase in the region comes suspiciously close to the Environmental Protection Agency’s ban on diazinon, a pesticide used to control various species of flies.
    Vinny Vella, Philly.com, 2018-06-05

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