Example Sentences

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A bill supporter dressed and speaking like John Lennon said “bloody maniacs” were poisoning the atmosphere.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Reinking wrote in his journal and told psychologists who examined him that he believed people in the Waffle House were poisoning his food and repeating things that he had written in his private journal.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2022

One resident believed that staff members were poisoning her.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2021

Blackley thought toxins in pollen were poisoning people.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2014

While the boa of rebellion was stretching itself across the heart of the empire a whole brood of little serpents were poisoning and devouring other outlying provinces.

From Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. by Fagg, John Gerardus