Sentence examples for rodent poison from inspiring English sources

White phosphorus is used in rodent poison and by the military for smoke generation.

A bluish rodent poison was sprinkled at the base of the five-foot-high plants.

In high concentrations, warfarin is used as a rodent poison, causing death by internal bleeding.

Now 13, Gulsum said that before eventually escaping, she tried to commit suicide by swallowing medicine and rodent poison.

The cause of death remains unclear, but he had symptoms that strongly resembled those of dogs that had ingested rodent poison, the veterinarian who treated him said.

Pellets laced with rodent poison have been inserted into the burrows that the rats have dug under the park's lawns and foliage, and in boxlike containers designed to keep them from being eaten by dogs, squirrels or birds.

"We were looking for ways it could be an accidental introduction -- an old bottle in the cupboard, rodent poisoning near the coffee -- but there's nothing there that makes us think it's accidental," said Lt. Dennis Appleton, the lead state police investigator.

In a study being released this week in The Lancet, researchers working in China place the blame for the high number of deaths on the ready availability of lethal pesticides and rodent poisons in rural areas, as well as the absence of mental health services in much of the country.

House mice in Germany and Spain have acquired resistance against a group of widely used rodent poisons through hybridization with a different species, the Algerian mouse.

Karl Link continued working on developing more potent coumarin-based anticoagulants for use as rodent poisons, resulting in warfarin in 1948.

If a pest control company tells you that "their type of rodent poisons" doesn't impact wildlife, ask for the name of the chemical and do your own research.