poisonous
Example Sentences
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The spiders were communicating once more, slowly rubbing their great ribbed back legs together like poisonous crickets.
From Literature
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In the past three months, California has seen a sudden uptick in the number of people becoming sickened and dying after accidentally eating poisonous mushrooms found in the wild.
From Los Angeles Times
“They live among poisonous sea anemones. The poison doesn’t affect them. Isn’t that cool?”
From Literature
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The snake was thicker than my thigh, but I knew from Togbe that these giants weren’t poisonous.
From Literature
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But there are dozens of other poisonous snake species for which India does not have targeted antivenom.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.