How to Use gas chamber in a Sentence

gas chamber

noun
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  • She was sent to the gas chambers on arrival at Auschwitz.
    — Houston Chronicle, 31 May 2018
  • Later that year, she and her mother were led to the gas chamber.
    — Zoë Jackson, Star Tribune, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Zyklon B was a poison the Nazis used to kills Jews in gas chambers.
    — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The following video depicts the killing of pigs in a CO2 gas chamber.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2023
  • But to smell it, taste it and see the gas chambers, the barracks and the barbed wire up close was life-altering.
    — Bob McKillop, Washington Post, 3 July 2018
  • Her parents, sister and niece went straight to the gas chambers.
    — Yardena Schwartz, miamiherald, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Many were euthanized — through the use of a gas chamber — the same day.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Her mother was killed in the gas chamber on arrival at Auschwitz.
    — Robin Estrin, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2021
  • The camp was to be liquidated and all children would be sent to the gas chamber.
    — Sergio Carmona, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • So the warden assembled the prison band, which made a quick record that Hill played all night and right up to the gas chamber door.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Missouri law still provides for the option of lethal gas, but the state no longer has a gas chamber and has not used the method since 1965.
    — Fox News, 20 Mar. 2018
  • But that meant that my two baby sisters were going to the gas chamber alone.
    — Diane Herbst, PEOPLE.com, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Mother and child were sent to the gas chamber upon arrival.
    — NBC News, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The last gas chamber execution in the U.S. was in Arizona in 1999.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 2 June 2021
  • Arizona is the only one that still has a working gas chamber.
    — CBS News, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Many of the victims at Stutthof died by lethal injection or by the camp’s gas chamber.
    — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Most of the victims were Jews transported from across Europe to be killed in gas chambers.
    — Fox News, 6 Dec. 2019
  • He was murdered in gas chambers that day, along with his mother and sister.
    — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The same team who put one of their Jewish characters in a gas chamber during Hanukkah?
    — Clarkisha Kent, The Root, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Between the gas chamber and the work detail, more than a million people were murdered this way at Auschwitz.
    — Jay Winik, WSJ, 21 June 2018
  • Officials have yet to say whether it would be delivered in a gas chamber or through a gas mask.
    — Author: Mark Berman, William Wan, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2017
  • Maybe there's something to be said about gas chambers, maybe there's certain questions about this, that, or the other.
    — Jerad W. Alexander, Esquire, 17 Feb. 2017
  • The pet was set to be put in a gas chamber until Heigl intervened and sought a more humane way to help the canine.
    — Mia McNiece, PEOPLE.com, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Her mother, father and two older sisters all died in the gas chambers there.
    — Andrew Clark, Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2017
  • LaGrand was the last inmate killed in the gas chamber that officials say has since been restored.
    — Meryl Kornfield, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2021
  • My father was deported to Auschwitz in the eighth transport, on October 16th, and died in the gas chambers.
    — Zuzana Justman, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Gendarmes were seated in the first and last wagons, to prevent even a single Jew from avoiding the gas chamber.
    — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 26 Sep. 2019
  • By March, its residents were being taken to Belzec, the first Nazi death camp to use gas chambers and one of the deadliest.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
  • At the camp’s peak, Auschwitz’s gas chambers were capable of murdering 2,000 people an hour.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • But once her permission had been granted, Roberts said, Sturdy Colls went back on her word and dug into the mass grave connected to the camp’s first gas chamber.
    — Rebecca Panovka, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024

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