How to Use mustard gas in a Sentence

mustard gas

noun
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  • After the war, mustard gas was banned, and for two years so was mustard.
    — Jack Handey, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • Iraqi soldiers dropped sarin and mustard gas on villages by plane in advance of infantry raids.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • In New Hampshire, a mix of garlic and Gatorade is substituted for a bomb armed with mustard gas.
    — CNN, 6 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • In addition to chlorine, both sides used phosgene and mustard gas, which blistered the skin.
    — Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2014
  • 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
  • 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
  • Shrimpers have hauled up mustard gas barrels and other munitions in their nets.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2018
  • Within 24 hours, Tasker and his wife began to suffer the effects of mustard gas exposure.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 June 2020
  • German mustard gas bombs were always marked with the distinctive Gelb Kreuz, or yellow cross.
    — Jennet Conant, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • In 2009, mustard gas was found on the grounds of American University.
    — 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 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
  • In the Gulf of Mexico, that tally could even include containers of the chemical weapon mustard gas.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2018
  • After saving Allen and losing his steel powers because of mustard gas, Nate decides to finally join Zari 1.0 in the totem.
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 3 Mar. 2022
  • All of this looks like the telltale signs of exposure to toxic chemical fumes or chemical weapons, such as mustard gas, Dr. Brandon Larsen told the Times.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • His task was to develop poison gases—first mustard gas, then an even nastier brew called lewisite.
    — Steven Shapin, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Haber also pioneered the battlefield use of mustard gas.
    — The Economist, 7 June 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Johnny was the first brain-tumor patient in the United States to be treated with mustard gas, an early form of chemotherapy; Gunther himself delivered the canisters full of the toxic stuff to the hospital.
    — Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Allied leaders were quick to place the blame on the Germans, but Alexander found concrete evidence sourcing the contamination to an Allied shipment of mustard gas struck during the bombing.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Allied forces, at long last, managed to contain German troops in their push toward Paris, but not before weeks of fearsome combat, sometimes hand-to-hand with bayonets amid clouds of mustard gas and shells exploding in the dark, overgrown woods.
    — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 27 June 2018
  • 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
  • Or, another gem, evacuate an enormous area of land and use airplanes to spray mustard gas (the gas widely used in World War I) to exterminate the animal population, which was responsible for the dispersal of prickly pear seeds.
    — Longreads, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The commission also identified seven victims of Hirt’s mustard gas experiments and 196 victims of Haagen’s research on a typhus vaccine.
    — New York Times, 24 July 2022

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