How to Use nitrous oxide in a Sentence

nitrous oxide

noun

• The engineers of the new rocket wanted to check the flow rates of nitrous oxide.
  — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• This isn't the first time SZA has expressed concern about the effects of nitrous oxide.
  — Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 21 May 2025
• Wanke, 25, worked at the store, located in Athens, that sold the nitrous oxide that Wiant inhaled.
  — Fox News, 20 Nov. 2019
• One more novel shift: Starbucks wants to find a way to make whipped cream without the use of nitrous oxide.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2020
• Once the mask is removed, the effects of nitrous oxide quickly wear off.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2022
• Why has only half been spent? L.A. wants to ban using nitrous oxide to get high.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
• And the habit of the early films of relying on the injection of nitrous oxide fuel to speed up a car — akin to the warp speed of sci-fi — is cheesy at best.
  — Washington Post, 24 June 2021
• When the valve is opened, the mixture is propelled from the can by nitrous oxide (laughing gas), and the gas expands rapidly to create a foam.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2022
• One of my projects measures nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas that can be formed by microbes.
  — Renée Zurui Wang, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
• Methane and nitrous oxide made up more than half of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2019.
  — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2022
• Farming and forestry can emit greenhouse gases like methane, nitrous oxide and CO2, but can also store it in the soil and in trees.
  — Ellen Anderson, Star Tribune, 24 Jan. 2021
• Heather just sat there, petals strewn all over the floor like nitrous oxide cartridges outside of a London nightclub.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 9 June 2021
• Canisters of compressed nitrous oxide work in the same way.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC news, 2 July 2025
• Used for nitrous oxide — one of our fun party favorites.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2021
• The crusade against methane and nitrous oxide will be all pain and no gain for farmers and for those who consume their produce.
  — Richard Lindzen, National Review, 16 Apr. 2021
• The first thing to know is that nitric oxide isn’t the same as nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas, or the stuff that gets you a little high at the dentist.
  — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 25 Jan. 2023
• Two open alcoholic drinks and a can of nitrous oxide were found on the ground near the man, investigators said.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2025
• That's because most of our row crops are conventional and have that turning of the soil, which have nitrous oxide emissions and all that.
  — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• When not in this special testing mode, the engines could emit up to 40 times the legal limit of harmful nitrous oxides.
  — Andrew Del-Colle, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2015
• Evil Dentists There was also a Weeknd who seemed to be addicted to nitrous oxide.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
• The spray uses nitrous oxide to prevent the virus from incubating and spreading to the lungs, the company said.
  — Bloomberg.com, 10 Jan. 2021
• Last year in Michigan, a vape shop storing large amounts of butane and nitrous oxide exploded, killing a 19-year-old man.
  — Edgar Domenech, Sun Sentinel, 18 June 2025
• However, people can misuse the product to get high from the nitrous oxide.
  — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 19 Sep. 2024
• Instead these laws seek to prohibit the sale of the objects designed for abusing nitrous oxide.
  — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2024
• Planes spew out carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, as well as nitrous oxides, which produce the greenhouse gas ozone.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 14 Jan. 2020
• Their report states that a 13-year-old boy was found a short distance from the grounds and admitting to taking nitrous oxide, cannabis and alcohol.
  — Lilly Milman, Billboard, 30 May 2018
• Inhaling nitrous oxide is a modern twist on an old high.
  — Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
• So do punitive measures like New Zealand’s plan to require farmers to start paying a price for the methane that cows belch and the nitrous oxide that comes from their urine.
  — Noah Gordon, The New Republic, 3 Oct. 2023
• Americans have known about the effects of nitrous oxide for centuries.
  — Andrew Yockey, The Conversation, 9 May 2025
• The Will County Health Department does not have data on nitrous oxide usage.
  — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025