How to Use mustard gas in a Sentence

mustard gas

noun

• After the war, mustard gas was banned, and for two years so was mustard.
  — Jack Handey, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
• Iraqi soldiers dropped sarin and mustard gas on villages by plane in advance of infantry raids.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• Shrimpers have hauled up mustard gas barrels and other munitions in their nets.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2018
• In addition to chlorine, both sides used phosgene and mustard gas, which blistered the skin.
  — Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2014
• Both films capture the sheer horror of trench warfare, and up-close deployment of new weapons, such as mustard gas.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• Its munitions included mustard gas, which burns the eyes and lungs, as well as a variety of nerve agents.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2022
• His task was to develop poison gases—first mustard gas, then an even nastier brew called lewisite.
  — Steven Shapin, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
• The best way to prevent serious health problems is to detect mustard gas early and keep people away from it.
  — Olamilekan Joseph Ibukun, The Conversation, 30 July 2025
• With the ship's destruction, mustard gas leaked into the harbor and dispersed into the clouds of smoke and flame from the bombing.
  — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020
• German mustard gas bombs were always marked with the distinctive Gelb Kreuz, or yellow cross.
  — Jennet Conant, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• In the study, the singlet oxygen in turn could break down molecules of a lab-safe molecular cousin of mustard gas both inside and outside the pores.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 3 Sep. 2019
• In a conversation with the Verge reporters, Bard refused to disclose how to make mustard gas at home.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
• In New Hampshire, a mix of garlic and Gatorade is substituted for a bomb armed with mustard gas.
  — CNN, 6 Sep. 2021
• Within 24 hours, Tasker and his wife began to suffer the effects of mustard gas exposure.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 June 2020
• Russian officials said the lab was used by the rebels to produce mustard gas and contained equipment made in Western Europe.
  — Washington Post, 22 June 2018
• In the Gulf of Mexico, that tally could even include containers of the chemical weapon mustard gas.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2018
• There was nothing more satisfying than landing a good headshot on an enemy soldier vacating a building full of mustard gas.
  — WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
• Some scientists have been working on a wearable electrochemical biosensor that could detect mustard gas in both liquid and vapor form.
  — Olamilekan Joseph Ibukun, The Conversation, 30 July 2025
• In 2009, mustard gas was found on the grounds of American University.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 June 2020
• Syria is known to possess several types of chemical agents, including blister agents, mustard gas, nerve agents, and chlorine, with the last two being used the most in recent years.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 13 Apr. 2018
• In the First World War, mustard gas was used as a chemical weapon, and doctors observed that soldiers who had been affected had very low white blood cell counts.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2022
• Syria was thought to have one of the largest stockpiles of chemical weapons in the world, including not only nerve agents such as VX but also blister agents like mustard gas.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2018
• The delegation was shown munitions made to distribute chemical weapons such as VX, mustard gas and other nerve agents.
  — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
• Derived from a relative of mustard gas, the drug is known to be highly toxic to a variety of blood cells; in fact, doctors had long used it to kill the diseased bone marrow in patients before transplant.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2024
• The brutality of the Fascists would be further demonstrated by their use of mustard gas not only on Ethiopian troops but on the civilian population.
  — Colin Grant, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2020
• For example, studies have reported physical abnormalities and disorders in the children of men who were exposed to mustard gas, while some of the men became infertile.
  — Olamilekan Joseph Ibukun, The Conversation, 30 July 2025
• The chemist Frances Micklethwait studied chemical weapons during the war and was among the first to analyze mustard gas, closely observing the effects of the pernicious gas on her own skin.
  — Elaine Weiss, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
• Some of those chemical agents, such as lewisite and mustard gas, were specifically designed to injure people; others, including sarin, soman, and VX, were designed to kill.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2022
• DeCoste is developing similar fabrics that neutralize mustard gas, a chemical weapon that is not a nerve agent but can severely burn the skin, eyes, and respiratory tract.
  — Sophia Chen, Wired, 4 Feb. 2020
• Detecting mustard gas early The current methods to detect mustard gas rely on sophisticated chemistry techniques.
  — Olamilekan Joseph Ibukun, The Conversation, 30 July 2025