Examples of “cyanide” in a Sentence

noun Any of a group of highly toxic chemical compounds containing a carbon atom triple-bonded to a nitrogen atom.

• Strict safety rules cover how factories store and handle cyanide.
• Chemistry students learn that cyanide is a very dangerous compound that must never be tasted.
• Cyanide compounds are used in some industrial processes despite their extreme toxicity.

noun Sodium or potassium cyanide, a fast-acting poison, or hydrogen cyanide gas.

• In mystery novels, cyanide is a famous poison that works within minutes.
• The old lab kept a bottle of cyanide locked in a special cabinet.
• The detective suspected cyanide poisoning as the cause of death.

verb To treat, extract, or kill using cyanide.

• The mining company cyanided the crushed rock to pull out the tiny flecks of gold.
• Workers cyaniding the ore had to wear protective suits and masks.
• Miners once cyanided ore to separate out traces of gold.