Example Sentences

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Chlorine bleach will poison any valuable landscaping or prize trees in your yard.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2023

And unless you acknowledge it and diagnosis it and take a scalpel and remove it, it will poison everything.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2022

“Enemy mentality will poison the spirit of a nation, incite cruel mortal struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity, and hinder a nation’s progress toward freedom and democracy,” one section read.

From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2017

"Every few hundred years, these lakes can have a sudden outburst of carbon dioxide, like the opening of a champagne bottle, and it will poison everything around them."

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2012

These men will poison your mind, he said.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela