Sentence examples for is noxious to from inspiring English sources

They surround their crops with rows of chili peppers, whose smell is noxious to elephants.

An alternative interpretation is that, the absence of pain notwithstanding, the idea of seeing and hearing the activity of the operating room is noxious to some people.

In addition, NO may react with superoxide anion, leading to the formation of highly toxic peroxynitrite, which is noxious to endothelial cells [ 115] and RGCs [ 50] and activates Müller glia [ 51].

Many other butterfly species are noxious to birds, and so they are carefully avoided as food.

However, on a recent afternoon, the stench at low tide was noxious to all but the ducks that roamed the soft, contaminated mud at the canal's head, sinking a little with every step.

HBO at first tried to translate the hard-fought primary campaign between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton into movie form, but the script for it was unwieldy (and the prospect of casting an actor to play a sitting president was noxious to some people involved).

However, most of these inhibitors are noxious to the atmosphere.

This seems to only work for people who are noxious to you personally, so it is a very powerful thing to play with.                  .

Applied perspectives promoting negative indirect interactions such as the effect of R. porosum on the performance of B. cinerea could be useful for Integrated Pest Management (IPM) purposes and lead to reduced use of pesticides which are noxious to beneficial arthropods [65].

The "directed deterrence" hypothesis suggests that nocigenic chemicals like capsaicin have evolved to be noxious to some herbivores (Tewksbury and Nabhan, 2001; Levey et al., 2006).

Whether this action is neuroprotective or neurotoxic, it is still not fully understood, but there is probably a threshold beyond which NF-κB activation starts to be noxious to cells.