gassing

Example Sentences

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The police department tweeted an apology nearly two hours later, describing the gassing as an “unwarranted action.”

From Seattle Times

Last week, for example, RT’s news director claimed on live television, without evidence, that Ukrainians might start gassing their own people.

From Seattle Times

By the end of the month, the Dutch government started gassing all the mink on affected farms, many of them kits just a few weeks old.

From New York Times

A third of the world’s Jewish population, including 1.5 million children, would die under their organized policy of gassing, shooting and slave labor in Auschwitz and at other concentration camps established by Hitler’s Nazi regime.

From New York Times

Worldwide, egg farmers kill around 7 billion newborn chicks per year, often by gassing them or grinding them up in mechanical shredders.

From Salon