poisonous

Example Sentences

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Once “destined for great things,” Lila makes a poisonous marriage that she eventually escapes by leaving to work in a factory.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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