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'poison' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'poison' with 15 example sentences.


poison noun

: any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism

: anything that harms or destroys

poison verb

: spoil as if by poison

: kill with poison

: add poison to

: kill by its poison

: administer poison to


  • If I were your wife, I would put poison in your coffee.
  • Someone tried to poison you.
  • The tip of the spear was dipped in a deadly poison.
  • I think that's rat poison.
  • I need to buy some rat poison.
  • One man's meat is another man's poison.
  • One drop of the poison is enough to kill 160 people.
  • What do you poison cockroaches with?
  • Our dog has been poisoned.
  • Lead poisoning endangers the health of millions of children around the world.
  • The Danish word "gift" means both married and poison.
  • Suspicion is the poison of friendship.
  • "What's your poison?" "Oh, give me a gin and tonic."
  • I got a rash from poison ivy.
  • All the most deadly poisons were in her laboratory.
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