ARSENIC in a Sentence

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1. Belladonna and red arsenic are deadly poisons.
2. The analysis showed a few grains of arsenic in the solution.
3. Analysis showed that traces of arsenic were present in the body.
4. She would premeditate the murder for months, reading about common poisons and buying weed killer that contained arsenic.
5. They fetch a doctor, who opens the dead body, and collects from the entrails and stomach a quantity of arsenic in a spoon.

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 Meanings and Examples of ARSENIC
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arsenic
 n.  a solid substance resembling metal in its physical properties, but in its chemical relations ranking with the nonmetals
Classic Sentence:
1  They fetch a doctor, who opens the dead body, and collects from the entrails and stomach a quantity of arsenic in a spoon.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52. Toxicology.
2  The same evening the grocer or grocers, druggist or druggists, come and say, 'It was I who sold the arsenic to the gentleman;' and rather than not recognize the guilty purchaser, they will recognize twenty.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52. Toxicology.
3  For three days he watered this cabbage with a distillation of arsenic; on the third, the cabbage began to droop and turn yellow.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52. Toxicology.
4  Instead of having watered his cabbage with arsenic, he had watered it this time with a solution of salts, having their basis in strychnine, strychnos colubrina, as the learned term it.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52. Toxicology.
5  Natasha was very ill, having, as Marya Dmitrievna told him in secret, poisoned herself the night after she had been told that Anatole was married, with some arsenic she had stealthily procured.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI
Example Sentence:
1  The analysis showed a few grains of arsenic in the solution.
2  She would premeditate the murder for months, reading about common poisons and buying weed killer that contained arsenic.
3  Analysis showed that traces of arsenic were present in the body.
4  Belladonna and red arsenic are deadly poisons.