poisonous
Example Sentences
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It’s a deceptively saccharine world, one that she sees as, in her words, a “poisonous lollipop.”
From Los Angeles Times
There’s no silver bullet for finding out whether a wild mushroom is poisonous unless you know what species it is, said Rudy Diaz, president of the Los Angeles Mycological Society.
From Los Angeles Times
Perhaps, but it also gave an immediacy bordering on desperation to a story of teenage identity, poisonous social media and murder.
Ama takes one of the petals of the poisonous flowers and starts an Adinkra symbol—like two number threes, turned away from each other and held together by a long line.
From Literature
Part of the reasoning in 2018 was site investigations found the ground underlain with peat deposits, as well as toxic and phytotoxic - meaning poisonous to plants - risk from shallow soils.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
