Below you will find example sentences with "nerve agent". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Nerve Agent in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: agent
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 11
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28.7 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "nerve agent" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a novichok nerve agent, believed from nerve agent in car, novichok, russian and skripal stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with free agent, special agent, estate agent, free agent and special agent, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with nerve agent
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
The GB nerve agent, also known as sarin, is outlawed under international rules of warfare. (15 words)
Earlier, a botched bid to kill him with radioactive nerve agent Novichok sprinkled in his underpants had failed. (18 words)
He and his daughter in 2018 were nearly killed in Britain by nerve agent poisoning blamed on Russian agents. (19 words)
The documentary portrays his career of fighting official corruption, his near-fatal poisoning with a nerve agent in 2020 that he blames on the Kremlin, his five-month recuperation in Germany and his 2021 return to Moscow, where he was taken into custody. (43 words)
Sturgess and Charlie Rowley, 45, fell ill last weekend in the town of Amesbury, near Salisbury, the city where former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were attacked with the Novichok nerve agent in March and have since recovered. (41 words)
Washington said on Wednesday it would also impose fresh sanctions on Russia by the end of August after it determined that Moscow had used a nerve agent against a former Russian agent and his daughter in Britain, something the Kremlin denies. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
British woman exposed to Novichok nerve agent dies (2 days ago) - UK police have opened a homicide investigation after a woman exposed to a nerve agent.
Russian ex-spy's poisoning in UK believed from nerve agent in car vents: SourcesAt least 38 other people in the U.K. were sickened by release of nerve agent.
Novichok nerve agents were developed by Russia during the Cold War, and are highly toxic — as much as 10 times more deadly than the lethal XV nerve agent.
Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned by nerve agent Novichok in Salisbury in Wiltshire in 2018.
Recent relations never recovered from 2018, when a former Russian intelligence agent and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury, England.
In 2018, the Kremlin was also accused of being behind the attempted murder of ex-double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, southwest England, using a Novichok nerve agent.
Britain called on Russia to give details about the Novichok nerve agent attack on a former double agent and his daughter after two British citizens were struck down with the same poison.
Russia tonight warned Britain not to threaten a nuclear power as it refused to meet a midnight deadline for explaining a nerve agent attack on a double agent.
Sturgess and Charlie Rowley, 45, fell ill last weekend in the town of Amesbury, near Salisbury, the city where former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were attacked with the Novichok nerve agent in March and have since recovered.
Washington said on Wednesday it would also impose fresh sanctions on Russia by the end of August after it determined that Moscow had used a nerve agent against a former Russian agent and his daughter in Britain, something the Kremlin denies.
At Kasumigaseki Station in the Japanese capital, officials observed a moment of silence at a memorial service at 8 a.m., around the time when the deadly sarin nerve agent was released in train cars on March 20, 1995.
Police identified two officers from Russian military intelligence as the main suspects and a perfume bottle as the means of delivery of the nerve agent onto Mr Skripal's front door handle.
Police said it later turned into a “siege situation” where a man claimed to have a nerve agent, a highly poisonous chemicals that can cause death.
The documentary portrays his career of fighting official corruption, his near-fatal poisoning with a nerve agent in 2020 that he blames on the Kremlin, his five-month recuperation in Germany and his 2021 return to Moscow, where he was taken into custody.
The GB nerve agent, also known as sarin, is outlawed under international rules of warfare.
A man who remember was involved in the murder of a British citizen, Dawn Sturgess, with deployment of nerve agent in Salisbury.
Both were poisoned by Putin's goons; Sacha in a London hotel bar and Alexei by a military-grade nerve agent.
DS Nick Bailey was taken seriously ill on March 8 after being exposed to the nerve agent during an investigation in Skripal’s home and on March 28 Skripal’s front door was confirmed as primary source of contamination.
Earlier, a botched bid to kill him with radioactive nerve agent Novichok sprinkled in his underpants had failed.
He and his daughter in 2018 were nearly killed in Britain by nerve agent poisoning blamed on Russian agents.