Explore Toxic through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like harmful or unhealthful. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Toxic in a sentence
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Toxic meaning
- Having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities.
- Appearing grossly unwell; characterised by serious, potentially life-threatening compromise in the respiratory, circulatory or other body systems.
- Severely negative or harmful.
Synonyms of Toxic
Using Toxic
- The main meaning on this page is: Having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities. | Appearing grossly unwell; characterised by serious, potentially life-threatening compromise in the respiratory, circulatory or other body systems. | Severely negative or harmful.
- Useful related words include: harmful, unhealthful, noxious, toxicant.
- In the example corpus, toxic often appears in combinations such as: of toxic, the toxic, to toxic.
Context around Toxic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 11 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Toxic
- In this selection, "toxic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, non, less, convert, waste, avenger and spill stand out and add context to how "toxic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a non toxic prodrug into, accumulated to toxic levels in, highly toxic, toxic chemicals and toxic substances. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "toxic" sits close to words such as pleased, referring and palestinians, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with toxic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Pure bromine is somewhat toxic, but less toxic than fluorine and chlorine. (12 words)
Yanay: There are many of eco-colors and non-toxic materiáls including non-toxic turpentine. (15 words)
Other compounds that are not normally considered toxic can be accumulated to toxic levels in organisms. (16 words)
Shelter-in-place order reinstated day after fatal crash, toxic spill on I-10 in Tucson Residents in the area of a hazmat situation on Interstate 10 in Tucson were told to stay inside Wednesday morning, the day after a fatal crash caused a toxic spill. (46 words)
Plans to import toxic waste from Europe were cancelled after an international campaign to halt the trade. citation The government was offered a contract to dispose of 15 million tons of toxic waste over a 15-year period. (38 words)
Meanwhile, the 'Toxic Cataclysm' zone will transport visitors into an abandoned dairy factory, known as the Cream Factory, which had been taken over by a gang transporting harmful chemicals and where toxic spills have had catastrophic consequences. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
But I suspect that the same politics that frets about 'toxic masculinity' in part gives rise to the most toxic form of manhood.
Catalytic converters are an exhaust emission control device fitted to vehicles that convert toxic gases and pollutants in exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine into less-toxic pollutants by catalyzing a reaction.
Meanwhile, the 'Toxic Cataclysm' zone will transport visitors into an abandoned dairy factory, known as the Cream Factory, which had been taken over by a gang transporting harmful chemicals and where toxic spills have had catastrophic consequences.
Shelter-in-place order reinstated day after fatal crash, toxic spill on I-10 in Tucson Residents in the area of a hazmat situation on Interstate 10 in Tucson were told to stay inside Wednesday morning, the day after a fatal crash caused a toxic spill.
Today I read of the "Pivotal" method and "toxic positivity"("Worried teachers say ‘toxic positivity’ leads to bullying and fails pupils", The Herald, February 2).
Peter Dinklage stars as downtrodden janitor Winston Gooze who, after falling into a vat of toxic waste, becomes none other than The Toxic Avenger.
Dumb and Dumber are getting waaaay dumber and having children — toxic is toxic– and meanwhile the fight rages against ignorance of a different kind.
Peter Dinklage of 'Game Of Thrones' to star in 'Toxic Avenger' reboot"Game of Thrones" alum Peter Dinklage has found his next project in Legendary's new "Toxic Avenger" film.
What offers — a vision not only of non-toxic male characters, but non-toxic male characters with an abiding emotional connection — feels rarer still, and wholly vital.
Yanay: There are many of eco-colors and non-toxic materiáls including non-toxic turpentine.
Although propellants containing the highly toxic sodium azide (NaN 3 ) were common in early inflator designs, little to no toxic sodium azide has been found on used airbags.
Another strategy is to use anaerobic bacteria that have been transformed with an enzyme that can convert a non-toxic prodrug into a toxic drug.
A substance that is weakly toxic for humans or other mammals may be strongly toxic to the natural prey or predators of the venomous animal.
For humans, typical presentations associated with exposure to any of the "classical" Neilen & Marvin 2008, p. 10 toxic heavy metals, or chromium (another toxic heavy metal) or arsenic (a metalloid), are shown in the table.
Insoluble salts of samarium are non-toxic and the soluble ones are only slightly toxic. citation When ingested, only about 0.05% of samarium salts is absorbed into the bloodstream and the remainder is excreted.
It is termed non-toxic as it does not produce toxic quantities of thyroid hormones, despite its size.
Other compounds that are not normally considered toxic can be accumulated to toxic levels in organisms.
Plans to import toxic waste from Europe were cancelled after an international campaign to halt the trade. citation The government was offered a contract to dispose of 15 million tons of toxic waste over a 15-year period.
Pure bromine is somewhat toxic, but less toxic than fluorine and chlorine.
Sunflowers can be used in phytoremediation to extract toxic ingredients from soil, such as lead, arsenic and uranium, and used in rhizofiltration to neutralize radionuclides and other toxic ingredients and harmful bacteria from water.
Phrases with toxic
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with toxic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of toxic 24×
- the toxic 16×
- to toxic 9×
- is toxic 8×
- toxic to 7×
- as toxic 7×
- and toxic 6×
- toxic waste 6×
- highly toxic 6×
- toxic substances 6×