poison gas
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of poison gas
First recorded in 1910–15
Example Sentences
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In Ankara, Siegfried became co-director of a gas mask factory, a joint Turkish-German enterprise next door to a poison gas laboratory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2025
Auschwitz and the Holocaust didn't begin with poison gas.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2025
It concludes with a stanza describing the death of a fellow soldier following a poison gas attack:
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2023
A few paragraphs later, though, he concedes that “some are noxious,” listing slavery and poison gas as examples.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2022
Like billboards whose occupants wore gas masks and reminded passersby that poison gas from Hitler’s Nazi Germany was still a very real threat.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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