toxic

Example Sentences

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Tens of thousands of unproductive and unplugged oil wells have been abandoned across California — many of which continue to leak potentially explosive methane or toxic benzene.

From Los Angeles Times

"If you think about it, he had the team competition as well as the singles, and it was a very toxic schedule. It's very bad that this happened to him," said Sato.

From Barron's

"The trouble is, they're trying to romanticise a dark and toxic story, so that is setting the audience up for a failure," she says.

From BBC

The sights of excavators and hazmat suits this week prompted a sigh of relief from Palisadians worried about the health risks of the potentially toxic debris.

From Los Angeles Times

The findings, published in Science Advances, show that people living in southern Africa 60,000 years ago already understood how to harness toxic plants to improve their hunting success.

From Science Daily