POISON in a Sentence

Learn POISON from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
170 example sentences for POISON, such as:
1. Sulphur may poison a fuel cell.
2. He swallowed some type of poison.
3. She schemed to kill him with poison.
4. Her blood was found to contain poison.
5. Some mushrooms contain a deadly poison.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of POISON
poison
 v.  add poison to
 v.  administer poison to
Classic Sentence: (132 in 9 pages)
1  Of the two pills in that box one was of the most deadly poison, and the other was entirely harmless.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
2  I was a fairly good dispenser, so I worked this alkaloid into small, soluble pills, and each pill I put in a box with a similar pill made without the poison.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
3  It would have been the same in any case, for Providence would never have allowed his guilty hand to pick out anything but the poison.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
4  Having sniffed the dead man's lips I detected a slightly sour smell, and I came to the conclusion that he had had poison forced upon him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
5  The forcible administration of poison is by no means a new thing in criminal annals.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
6  A rumour went round that Snowball had after all contrived to introduce poison into Napoleon's food.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
7  Because I infinitely prefer the spontaneous spite to the concocted sugaries; now they are poison; when I begin saying what a fine fellow Clifford is, etc.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
8  It was one of the ghastly half-truths that poison human existence.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
9  'One man's meat is another man's poison,' he said, out of the darkness.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
10  'And mind you don't poison it,' said Mr. Sikes, laying his hat upon the table.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  But now the spell had been upon him eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the effects.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
12  Out of the black shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of the metal pipes.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
13  The rapidity with which such a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be an advantage.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
14  It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where the poison fangs had done their work.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
15  Caesar, poisoned at the same time, escaped by shedding his skin like a snake; but the new skin was spotted by the poison till it looked like a tiger's.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18. The Treasure.
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  One man's meat is another man's poison.
2  Suspicion is the poison of true friendship.
3  He swallowed some type of poison.
4  Put it dissolve into zero, whether not become poison.
5  One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine.
6  Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you ; music cannotpunish ---- only bless.
7  Sulphur may poison a fuel cell.
8  Some mushrooms contain a deadly poison.
9  Her blood was found to contain poison.
10  The food was analysed root and branch and found to contain small amounts of poison.
11  Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.
12  It was deadly poison and if he drank it he'd probably die.
13  They contrived a mask against poison gas.
14  The enemy may have recourse to steel instead of poison.
15  She schemed to kill him with poison.