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  • There're all kinds of toxic—" That's when my head went under.†   (source)
  • He is still murmuring, trying to talk himself off some innermost ledge, and she can feel fear pumping off him, virulent, toxic; it reminds her of fumes billowing off the vats of formalin in the Department of Zoology.†   (source)
  • Because hydrazine is very toxic.†   (source)
  • Fear pushed up and through Thomas's chest, like toxic gas rejected by his stomach.†   (source)
  • The doors of the school flew open and the students burst from the building as if there had been some kind of toxic-waste spill inside.†   (source)
  • Nicotine is a toxic waste of time.†   (source)
  • I said, "What are the toxic foods?"†   (source)
  • Too much of a good thing, you know....highly toxic in large quantities.†   (source)
  • He was a tall, thin, lugubrious presence; a sourness radiated from him—dogs not only refrained from biting him, they slunk away from him; they must have known that the taste of him was as toxic as a toad's.†   (source)
  • My head is killing me, my throat is killing me, my stomach bubbles with toxic waste.†   (source)
  • So many toxic and flammable things.†   (source)
  • Then, inside the earth and so far away from the man or woman who had laced a garden with toxic bait, an entire family of rabbits would curl into themselves and die.†   (source)
  • The view from the hotel was beautiful, but here too the water was thick and toxic.†   (source)
  • I've encountered cobwebs and loads of dust and some mysterious slimy substance that might be toxic mold, but this is the first truly gross thing I've seen.†   (source)
  • But I loved the smell — bracingly toxic—and the feel of old wood under my hands.†   (source)
  • Amy was toxic, yet I couldn't imagine a world without her entirely.†   (source)
  • Its bloody light burned down on the Chessboard Desert through a cloud-clotted sky, toxic vapors burping continuously out of the factory engaged in manufacturing Redd's war machines.†   (source)
  • Toxic if used excessively.†   (source)
  • Still, I knew I was in for a brutal time, especially since the surgery needed to be followed by an extremely toxic regimen of chemotherapy and radiation.†   (source)
  • He spat out the word like it was toxic.†   (source)
  • Then add toxic gas and ground-up rock and ash.†   (source)
  • They spent their days breathing in toxic coal dust and asbestos, which they brought home to their wives and daughters, who inhaled it while shaking the men's clothes out for the wash.†   (source)
  • by-lOs using fake IDs, filled them up with steel drums full of toxic chemical waste, and then abandoned them, leaving the problem for the U-Stor-It Corporation to handle.†   (source)
  • When nicotine reaches toxic levels in a mouse (nicotine is, after all, a poison) it has a seizure — its tail goes rigid; it begins running wildly around its cage; its head starts to jerk and snap; and eventually it flips over on its back.†   (source)
  • A long time ago the river 'turned toxic partway down and no one could live near its banks.†   (source)
  • All thorn-free and non-toxic, no deadly oleander or foxglove that a confused person might nibble on!'†   (source)
  • "Thanks," she told Elliot, flashing him a toxic smile that, for reasons beyond me, mesmerized the opposite sex.†   (source)
  • But I was still watching that kid, the way he seemed to cloud the air around him with silent, toxic fury.†   (source)
  • II The Airborne Toxic Event .†   (source)
  • "Lil Spicer," he said, still looking at the pencil, "perhaps during today's experiment, you should allow Doug Swieteck to handle the more toxic chemicals."†   (source)
  • Cigarette smoke, toxic curls in the stairwell at my feet, soft voices rising, pheromone fog.†   (source)
  • "This agreement means that Nebraskans will no longer be forced to inhale IBP's toxic emissions," said a Justice Department official.†   (source)
  • As the kidneys fail, the blood becomes toxic with urine.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, this variety of cassava that we had introduced had great yields, but it also was more bitter and toxic.†   (source)
  • If you don't know what ginkgo trees are, they're the trees that drop these little squishy nuts that smell like dog poop mixed with cat pee mixed with some toxic waste when you step on them.†   (source)
  • 'He's cut down considerably on the toxic emissions.†   (source)
  • Plenty of the black kids arrived there from toxic inner-city junior high schools and were creatively gifted but short of basic skills.†   (source)
  • The melted metal—it could be, like, toxic sludge or something.†   (source)
  • It's the toxic waste of small towns.†   (source)
  • It's toxic shock, he says, and adjusts the medications.†   (source)
  • Eating liver is either a) toxic or b) imperative for brain development.†   (source)
  • I had been naive enough to believe then that you could take something toxic and poisonous, and contain it so that you'd never be burned by it again.†   (source)
  • It smelled toxic.†   (source)
  • The two classrooms had been overrun with a virulent toxic killer mold that crawled over textbooks, walls, and furniture and made many people sick.†   (source)
  • To most whites, he was a toxic legend, a crazy old drunk who had embarrassed a once proud family and now shacked up with his housekeeper.†   (source)
  • Raffe dug the ditch instead of working on the truly toxic part of the latrines, but not everyone was that lucky.†   (source)
  • He's toxic!†   (source)
  • Ira Hayes was toxic in Rene's presence.†   (source)
  • But valerian isn't toxic, and this is.†   (source)
  • And she believes that toxic injection of live bovine virus marked the beginning of Christa's brain dysfunction.†   (source)
  • Her face turning purple as she struggled to breathe the toxic air.†   (source)
  • She had smell and touch and taste to help her, but touch and taste could be perilous when grinding poisons, and with some of the waif's more toxic concoctions even smell was less than safe.†   (source)
  • We're breathing toxic fumes?†   (source)
  • The man was toxic.†   (source)
  • The fumes had dissipated so it wasn't toxic to hang out in the room anymore, but the mood was grim.†   (source)
  • Far to the south of him, rolling out of the Spine of the World like a toxic cloud of foul-smelling vapors, came the goblin and giant forces of Akar Kessell.†   (source)
  • If your marriage is toxic, end it.†   (source)
  • He didn't complain about his remaining kidney or his damaged liver and lungs from living around such toxic elements.†   (source)
  • But all of a sudden, more than you know, he's outside somewhere, sometimes even alone, crossing the streets, scaling rocks, wrestling with dogs, swimming in pits, getting into everything mechanical and combustible and toxic.†   (source)
  • As he was scanning, he was picking up and sniffing anything that wasn't registering as toxic.†   (source)
  • Because Roamer and I have been sworn enemies since middle school, he shoves the books out of my hands, and even though this is right out of Fifth-Grade Bullying 101, I feel a familiar black grenade of anger—like an old friend—go off in my stomach, the thick, toxic smoke from it rising up and spreading through my chest.†   (source)
  • He had learned about a forest vine much like a morning glory, but its leaves carried a sting worse than that of a nettle, toxic and producing numbness.†   (source)
  • Arguing that toxic and hazardous waste facilities were located near minority and low-income neighborhoods in disproportionate numbers, Solis successfully marshaled support for the landmark bill.†   (source)
  • There are some fifty varieties of toxic locoweeds, the bulk of which are in the genus Astragalus, a genus very closely related to Hedysarum.   (source)
    toxic = poisonous
  • The plant that poisoned him was not known to be toxic, indeed, he'd been safely eating its roots for weeks.   (source)
  • Although it says nothing about the seeds of the species being edible, it also says nothing about the seeds being toxic.   (source)
  • In order for the toxic compound to be excreted in the urine, it first has to bind with available molecules of glucose or amino acid.   (source)
  • Laid low by the toxic seeds, McCandless discovered that he was suddenly far too weak to hike out and save himself.   (source)
  • There is a strong likelihood, moreover, that the alkaloid is swainsonine, a compound known to ranchers and livestock veterinarians as the toxic agent in locoweed.   (source)
  • With the discovery by Clausen and Treadwell that wild potato seeds may be repositories of swainsonine or some similarly toxic compound, a compelling case can be made for these seeds having caused McCandless s death.   (source)
  • To be fair to McCandless, it should be pointed out that the seeds of H. alpinum have never been described as toxic in any published text: An extensive search of the medical and botanical literature yielded not a single indication that any part of H. alpinum is poisonous.   (source)
  • Accounts of individuals being poisoned from eating H. mackenzii are nonexistent in modern medical literature, but the aboriginal inhabitants of the North have apparently known for millennia that wild sweet pea is toxic and remain extremely careful not to confuse H. alpinum with H. mackenzii.   (source)
  • She suffered from exposure to toxic substances.
    toxic = poisonous or harmful
  • toxic waste
  • Melia azedarach, called chinaberry or West Indian lilac, contained a number of toxic alkaloids.†   (source)
  • Constant browsers would be constantly sick if they were eating a toxic plant.†   (source)
  • We know it's toxic.†   (source)
  • A derailed train with a pool of toxic waste spilling from the tank cars.†   (source)
  • He handled the items as if they were toxic.†   (source)
  • "I heard the East River is more toxic," I continued, "but the Hudson smells worse.†   (source)
  • The look on Roland's face is so toxic it could take out an entire unit.†   (source)
  • The other Colonies are worse, though, the toxic dumps and the radiation spills.†   (source)
  • "What about the toxic waste?" she asked.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's from screaming, maybe it's the toxic waste, maybe she's getting ready to gag.†   (source)
  • At a CAFO like Poky it becomes a toxic waste.†   (source)
  • I can spot someone in the toxic overload stage a mile away.†   (source)
  • Pain tore through him like a series of toxic explosions, and he fled to the darkness once again.†   (source)
  • "You look good in uniform," Marcie told him, flashing her trademark toxic smile.†   (source)
  • The liquid at the bottom of the paint bucket, however toxic it was, is gone.†   (source)
  • Thinking you can is just another symptom of the toxic overload stage.†   (source)
  • But the waste from CAFOs is a huge source of very toxic pollution.†   (source)
  • Maybe toxic waste wasn't in his near future.†   (source)
  • She flashed another toxic smile and lobbed the softball at me.†   (source)
  • The cars, their colors washed grey from the toxic water, were strewn about like playthings.†   (source)
  • No chemicals means no toxic runoff into rivers and oceans.†   (source)
  • Oh, Ginny, goodness me, everything is toxic.†   (source)
  • Along with the Toxic Five, it formed one of the firm theoretical bases for Wildfire.†   (source)
  • Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic, you know?†   (source)
  • His body spray was at a less-than-toxic level.†   (source)
  • Her mother, she often mused, had been fatally attracted to two things: booze and toxic men.†   (source)
  • I called your lab for the results from Kate McTiernan's toxic screen.†   (source)
  • That would have been a real problem on Earth since nickel gas was highly toxic.†   (source)
  • Wade Lanier began his toxic cross-examination by asking about Simeon.†   (source)
  • The toxic cocktail of drugs inside was designed to stop a heart for good.†   (source)
  • He's telling them what he knows about the toxic event.†   (source)
  • It's not toxic chemicals, it's not industrial ash and it's not heroin.†   (source)
  • The Lang name is toxic around here and I don't think Lettie can get a fair trial.†   (source)
  • Just because we can breathe now, doesn't mean the air isn't toxic.†   (source)
  • Could be the toxic residue in the atmosphere is diminishing.†   (source)
  • Your supply of Coca-Cola, since it is toxic to Glatun systems, is still in customs hold.†   (source)
  • She filed for divorce two days ago, Jake, and her last name is pretty toxic around here.†   (source)
  • Every day on the news there's another toxic spill.†   (source)
  • It's no wonder they call this thing the airborne toxic event.†   (source)
  • Ever since the air borne toxic event, the sunsets had become almost unbearably beautiful.†   (source)
  • I had my second medical checkup since the toxic event.†   (source)
  • The toxic event was still in view, chemical tracers shooting in slow arcs out of its interior.†   (source)
  • I don't see myself fleeing an airborne toxic event.†   (source)
  • It's called Nyodene Derivative or Nyodene D. It was in a movie we saw in school on toxic wastes.†   (source)
  • I told him I'd spent two and a half minutes exposed to the toxic cloud.†   (source)
  • People with electronic equipment appeared to be trying to detect radiation or toxic fallout.†   (source)
  • The dogs have sniffed out only a few traces of toxic material on the edge of town.†   (source)
  • I wanted them to pay attention to the toxic event.†   (source)
  • At the front of the hall a woman was saying something about exposure to toxic agents.†   (source)
  • The airborne toxic event is a horrifying thing.†   (source)
  • You think there's no chance a bunch of organisms can eat their way through the toxic event.†   (source)
  • It must be pretty toxic or pretty explosive stuff, or both.†   (source)
  • This is Nyodene D. A whole new generation of toxic waste.†   (source)
  • The road curved away from the toxic cloud and traffic moved more freely for a while.†   (source)
  • The toxic event had released a spirit of imagination.†   (source)
  • Through her mask, she reports that unfortunately a study has just today determined that the mines of District 13 are still too toxic to approach.†   (source)
  • The air got too full, once, of chemicals, rays, radiation, the water swarmed with toxic molecules, all of that takes years to clean up, and meanwhile they creep into your body, camp out in your fatty cells.†   (source)
  • If Hearthstone started farting like the thunder god, the air down there was going to get toxic real fast.†   (source)
  • He took care to do this in a hopeless voice: being loved by him was a poison pill, it was spiritually toxic, it would drag them down to the murky depths where he himself was imprisoned, and it was because he loved them so much that he wanted them out of harm's way, i.e., out of his ruinous life.†   (source)
  • Even the plant instructor in the Training Center made a point of telling us to avoid berries unless you were 100 percent sure they weren't toxic.†   (source)
  • I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop where the scrub lining the railroad tracks had offered local companies enough cover to dump a stray container or two.†   (source)
  • We sit in the sun on a metal picnic bench and eat hot dogs, white buns wrapped around cylinders of phosphate with relish so green it looks toxic, and it may be the greatest thing I've ever eaten because I am Dead Amy and I don't care.†   (source)
  • Standardization of the field wasn't possible until several things happened: first, Tuskegee began mass-producing HeLa; second, a researcher named Harry Eagle at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) used HeLa to develop the first standardized culture medium that could be made by the gallon and shipped ready to use; and, third, Gey and several others used HeLa to determine which glassware and test-tube stoppers were least toxic to cells.†   (source)
  • As of now, the appropriate authorities have already given their clear judgment: The book is a toxic piece of reactionary propaganda.†   (source)
  • His long stringy hair might once have been reddish brown, but it was now burned and bleached from centuries of being in this toxic cave.†   (source)
  • Toxic and hazardous wastes were stored in another corner of the dump, where you could find old batteries, oil drums, paint cans, and bottles with skulls and crossbones.†   (source)
  • In Reality, people work with dangerous substances all the time-radioactive isotopes and toxic chemicals.†   (source)
  • There was, too, a negative inducement: childless or infertile or older women who were not married could take service in the Aunts and thereby escape redundancy, and consequent shipment to the infamous Colonies, which were composed of portable populations used mainly as expendable toxic-cleanup squads, though if lucky you could be assigned to less hazardous tasks, such as cotton picking and fruit harvesting.†   (source)
  • But the urge to see Hearthstone free of his father, reunited with Blitzen, and out of this toxic house ...that was stronger.†   (source)
  • How did you decide when someone was irretrievably lost—when they were so evil or toxic or just plain set in their ways that you had to face the fact they were never going to change?†   (source)
  • Kathy mentioned the roving gangs, the toxic chemicals, the diseases that were being unearthed and spread.†   (source)
  • A horrible, sickening, toxic fear.†   (source)
  • Stillbirths, miscarriages, and genetic deformities were widespread and on the increase, and this trend has been linked to the various nuclear-plant accidents, shutdowns, and incidents of sabotage that characterized the period, as well as to leakages from chemical —and biological-warfare stockpiles and toxic-waste disposal sites, of which there were many thousands, both legal and illegal — in some instances these materials were simply dumped into the sewage system — and to the uncontrolled use of chemical insecticides, herbicides, and other sprays.†   (source)
  • covered cargo net between two ships rocking different ways, with nothing underneath us except ice water full of plague rats, toxic waste, and killer whales.†   (source)
  • What's out there, toxic-wise?†   (source)
  • He didn't tell me that feedlot wastes also contain toxic chemicals and drugs that end up in waterways downstream.†   (source)
  • Because of the chickens, Joel doesn't have to treat his cattle with toxic chemicals to get rid of parasites.†   (source)
  • Not as many shoulder holsters as she would expect; all the gun-carrying Feds are probably out in what used to be Alabama or Chicago trying to confiscate back bits of United States territory from what is now a Buy 'n' Fly or a toxic-waste dump.†   (source)
  • Instead of toxic pesticides, crops are sprayed with natural substances, like BT, a pesticide made from a common soil bacteria.†   (source)
  • The chemical is so toxic to the nervous system that no one is allowed in the field for five days after it is sprayed.†   (source)
  • The poison might be a defense against being eaten, or it might just be one of the chemicals the fungus needs to do its work that happens to be toxic to humans.†   (source)
  • Other figures in masks and butylene suits were gathered at the base of the structure to inspect isolated material for toxic content.†   (source)
  • The smell was medicinal, toxic.†   (source)
  • The head crumpled, spraying venom and ichor; Clary rolled to one side, but some of the toxic substance splattered onto her torso.†   (source)
  • They plunged through the toxic fog.†   (source)
  • But demon blood is toxic stuff.†   (source)
  • Presumably the organisms cross over to the bloodstream there—or they may release a toxic substance, which crosses over.†   (source)
  • Morris's body lay on the floor for hours, just ten feet from the door, as toxic gas filled the building.†   (source)
  • They kept their hands to themselves, which was good because I could feel it, the gray closing in on me like a toxic fog, filling my lungs with poison.†   (source)
  • Toxic, high-allergen garden killers.†   (source)
  • Men and women, scattered from homeland, family, friends, wander desolate and uncertain, scorched by a toxic sun.... In this desert of frightened, blind uncertainty, some take refuge in the pursuit of power.†   (source)
  • And the factor that seemed to move his proposal from risky to toxic was not American infrastructure, or the market for American-made goods, or the competition from China.†   (source)
  • I was born in toxic sludge.†   (source)
  • That stuff in there could be toxic.†   (source)
  • Isolate the most toxic waste, okay.†   (source)
  • I don't think Reynolds knew there was plutonium in there, but he might have thought there was something toxic that people were after.†   (source)
  • The first page was as bad as any of them: THIS IS PAGE 1 OF 274 PAGES PROJECT: WILDFIRE AUTHORITY: NASA/AMC CLASSIFICATION: TOP SECRET (NTK BASIS) PRIORITY: NATIONAL (DX) SUBJECT: Initiation of high-security facility to prevent dispersion of toxic extraterrestrial agents.†   (source)
  • If all that mattered were the unfettered right to buy and sell, tainted food could not be kept off supermarket shelves, toxic waste could be dumped next door to elementary schools, and every American family could import an indentured servant ( or two), paying them with meals instead of money.†   (source)
  • Not when it might still be toxic.†   (source)
  • These elements would drift up into the sky, react with oxygen to form sulfur trioxide, and then clamp onto water molecules to create a potent compound that would later fall back to earth as toxic acid rain.†   (source)
  • A reducing atmosphere was the original atmosphere of Earth, consisting of a, to humans, toxic mixture of ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide.†   (source)
  • The more toxic the waste, the greater the effort and expense a tourist will be willing to tolerate in order to visit the site.†   (source)
  • A country will take a fee amounting to four times its gross national product to accept a shipment of toxic waste.†   (source)
  • The Lang name is toxic.†   (source)
  • She tilted her head to the side and gave him a small smile that, for a moment, made him forget that he was marooned on a potentially toxic planet with ninety-nine juvenile delinquents.†   (source)
  • They gather after dusk at a windy place between bridge approaches, seven or eight people drawn by the word of one or two, then thirty people drawn by the seven, then a tight silent crowd that grows bigger but no less respectful, two hundred people wedged onto a traffic island in the bottommost Bronx where the expressway arches down from the terminal market and the train yards stretch toward the narrows, all that old industrial muscle with its fretful desolation—the ramps that shoot tall weeds and the waste burner coughing toxic fumes and the old railroad bridge spanning the Harlem River, an openwork tower at either end, maybe swaying slightly in persistent wind.†   (source)
  • If he waited too long, Octavia would be barreling through space toward a toxic planet, while he remained to face the consequences of disrupting the launch.†   (source)
  • How toxic is the cargo?†   (source)
  • It'd probably turn out to be toxic, but every time he inhaled, he sensed something unnamable but intriguing, like a mysterious girl who wouldn't meet your eyes but passed closely enough for you to catch a whiff of her perfume.†   (source)
  • That could be toxic.†   (source)
  • Disguised as toxic waste?†   (source)
  • Toxic material in the air or water.†   (source)
  • It was a terrible thing to see, so close, so low, packed with chlorides, benzines, phenols, hydrocarbons, or whatever the precise toxic content.†   (source)
  • It was the black billowing cloud, the airborne toxic event, lighted by the clear beams of seven army helicopters.†   (source)
  • He was talking about the airborne toxic event in a technical way, although his voice all but sang with prophetic disclosure.†   (source)
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