How to Use toxicity in a Sentence

toxicity

noun

• Does the amount of the poison matter in terms of its toxicity?
  — Brad Reisfeld, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2023
• The ladies of The View got into a heated debate about workplace toxicity while... at work on live TV.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2022
• Where Yik Yak oozes toxicity, BeReal feels like a safe haven, at least for the time being.
  — Wired, 26 July 2022
• With Snyder and his toxicity out of the way, the Commanders could get a new stadium.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
• Her job is to teach her daughter how to not put up with toxicity, gaslighting and this type of nonsense from anyone.
  — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
• But as the pandemic progressed, the damage done by the virus broadened, and the toxicity of modern-day politics came to the fore.
  — Akilah Johnson and Dan Keating, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2022
• In August 2020, the FDA rejected the drug due to toxicity.
  — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 15 Jan. 2024
• But Cameron’s toxicity is never dampened, even in the end.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2022
• Be sure not to exceed this upper limit, as the risk of adverse effects, like toxicity, is much greater above this amount.
  — Isabel Vasquez Rd Ldn, Health, 4 Feb. 2023
• Hate, online hate and haters and trolls, and factions and all that has just gotten more galvanized in its toxicity.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 26 July 2023
• This can increase penicillin concentrations in the blood as well as the risk of side effects and drug toxicity.
  — Jenny Sweigard, Verywell Health, 16 Nov. 2023
• Perhaps this is just a brief moment of prelapsarian bliss, doomed to give way to run-of-the-mill internet toxicity.
  — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2022
• Lockheed says the system is designed to scale to hundreds of megawatts in repeatable blocks with no acute toxicity or fire hazard.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 3 Jan. 2023
• When dead animals and plants fell to the ocean floor, the toxicity protected their remains from scavengers, helping to preserve them.
  — Santiago Flórez, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
• Submitted by Lori Giles: My daughter died of fentanyl (mixed drug toxicity) on April 4 at age 26.
  — Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023
• Its fans are passionate — sometimes to the point of toxicity — and hardly unified.
  — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Sep. 2022
• This is important information that will help the vet determine the level of toxicity and know how to treat your dog.
  — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Mar. 2024
• All of the drugs had passed initial animal testing, but some had later turned out to cause liver toxicity in humans.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• In truth, the toxicity in the country’s information well has only gotten worse since 2020.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 7 Nov. 2022
• Too much vitamin D may raise your risk of toxicity and excess calcium in your blood.
  — Amanda Gardner, Health, 11 Oct. 2023
• The company said the severity of the health issues depend on the level of Vitamin A and the length of exposure, but can result in Vitamin A toxicity.
  — Joanne Rosa, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2023
• The team found that the contaminants in the sediment, including lead and TBT — an endocrine disrupter used to protect ship hulls — accounted for most of the toxicity.
  — Katharine Sanderson, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
• Samples on Florida's west coast from Venice to Naples tested at high levels of toxicity.
  — Kimberly Miller, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2023
• Some saw Tay’s failure as evidence of social media’s inherent toxicity, a place that brings out the worst in people and allows trolls to hide in anonymity.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
• All of them have the potential for toxicity in humans, and none have been studied extensively.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 5 June 2023
• However, the consumption of flax is highly unlikely to cause cyanide toxicity because levels are very low and the body can detoxify cyanide in amounts as small as those found in flaxseeds.
  — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Rd, Health, 25 Aug. 2023
• Elsewhere, in December 2022, Navarro and Griffin butted heads over a segment about toxicity in the workplace.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2024
• The goal is to be able to detect when the output translation introduces toxicity that wasn’t present in the original material.
  — Emilia David, The Verge, 22 Aug. 2023
• There are increasing efforts to cut out other people in the name of removing toxicity.
  — Jeffrey A. Hall, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
• The metabolic turn isn’t just about learning to digest toxicity.
  — Kelly Pendergrast, WIRED, 14 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024