How to Use nerve agent in a Sentence
nerve agent
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Police said the pair were exposed to the nerve agent Novichok.
—Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY, 9 July 2018
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Dawn Sturgess, who died after being exposed to a nerve agent.
—Reuters, NBC news, 4 Dec. 2025
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Theories range from a nerve agent to microwave or sonic weapons.
—Peter Aitken, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2021
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That’s why prompt treatment is so important — and knowing that a nerve agent is to blame will help.
—Rachel Becker, The Verge, 4 July 2018
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Police cordoned off parks, pubs and restaurants as teams searched for traces of the deadly nerve agent.
—Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
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How quickly a nerve agent kills someone depends on how it is delivered and how much.
—Ciara Nugent, Time, 5 July 2018
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Navalny was poisoned in a nerve agent attack last summer and nearly died.
—Star Tribune, 8 Feb. 2021
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Britain has accused Russia of exposing them to a nerve agent.
—Ilan Ben Zion, The Seattle Times, 28 May 2018
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Kim Jong Nam was poisoned in a Malaysian airport with a lethal nerve agent.
—Tyler Van Dyke, Washington Examiner, 19 Nov. 2020
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Police couldn’t say whether the four were all contaminated from the same batch of nerve agent.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 8 July 2018
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Tests showed that he had been poisoned with a chemical nerve agent, Novichok.
—Peter Aitken, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2020
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Hundreds more have been warned about possible exposure to the nerve agent.
—Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 14 Mar. 2018
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Her station focused on a type of blood test done if someone is believed to have been exposed to a nerve agent.
—Matt Button, baltimoresun.com, 10 Oct. 2019
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The Russians have already used a weapons-grade nerve agent, Novichok.
—Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2022
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Navalny was poisoned by a nerve agent in 2020 and later jailed.
—Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
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Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent while on an airplane in 2020.
—Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 29 Feb. 2024
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Navalny blamed Putin for the attack on him using the nerve agent Novichok.
—Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022
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In addition to the Skripals, the nerve agent harmed three others who came in contact with it.
—NBC News, 5 Dec. 2019
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Tests on Kim's eyes and face later revealed the presence of VX nerve agent.
—Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 30 Sep. 2017
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Tests confirmed that the couple were exposed to the same nerve agent that poisoned the Skripals.
—Casey Quackenbush, Time, 11 July 2018
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In the ensuing days, public health officials raced against time to trace the lethal nerve agent that threatened the city.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 24 Jan. 2021
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Uglev pointed out Novichok is in fact a group of four nerve agents, each named after the year they were created.
—Brendan Cole, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2018
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The Kremlin denied trying to kill him and said there was no evidence he was poisoned with a nerve agent.
—Reuters, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
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The procedure involves drawing a vile of blood from the patient to test for an enzyme that the nerve agent would attack in the body.
—Matt Button, baltimoresun.com, 10 Oct. 2019
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The regime had tried to kill him before, once poisoning him with a weapons-grade nerve agent that left Navalny comatose for weeks.
—Simon Shuster / Vilnius, TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
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But Putin purposely used a nerve agent so there would be footprints leading all the way back to the Kremlin.
—CBS News, 26 Aug. 2020
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Another appears to be a news report about the nerve agent used in the Salisbury attack.
—Brian Barrett, WIRED, 19 June 2018
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In 2020, Navalny blamed Putin for poisoning him with a nerve agent.
—Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 2 Mar. 2022
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The nerve agent was produced in the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
—Washington Post, 11 July 2018
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Britain says the nerve agent is Novichok, developed in the Soviet Union.
—Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2018
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