How to use "lethal" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "lethal" in popular movie and book plots

  • Caesar survives his execution because MacDonald lowers the machine's electrical output well below lethal levels.  - Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
  • The Doctor attempts to remove the figure's face plate, but the others protest that oxygen is lethal to a Mogarian.  - Terror of the Vervoids
  • Shortly after the colony was founded some years prior, it was discovered the planet was bathed in Berthold rays, a lethal form of radiation.  - This Side of Paradise (Star Trek: The Original Series)
  • Louis confronts his son and sends him back to the grave with a lethal injection of chemicals from his medical supply stock.  - Pet Sematary
  • Nine months later, Utah tracks Bodhi at Bells Beach in Victoria, Australia, where a record storm is producing lethal waves.  - Point Break
  • On October 9, 2002, Aileen is executed by lethal injection.  - Monster (2003 film)
  • The box taken by Nick contains a lethal dose of cocaine, which she uses to escape the gallows.  - Peril at End House
  • Dick expresses a desire to kill Vietnamese people as he shows off the lethal weaponry his brother smuggled in from Vietnam.  - A Prayer for Owen Meany
  • The recolada begins its spread across Lusitania, converting the formerly lethal virus into a harmless aid to native life.  - Xenocide
  • Global air currents are slowly carrying the lethal nuclear fallout across the Intertropical Convergence Zone to the Southern Hemisphere.  - On the Beach (novel)
  • The cargo is an embryo of a Giant Warrior, one of the lethal bioweapons that caused the Seven Days of Fire.  - Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film)
  • Happy has an opportunity to inject von Ecker with a lethal overdose of medicine, but does not do so.  - Decision Before Dawn
  • While they are driving, Montini takes out a syringe, filled with lethal poison and tries to kill Boyd.  - Exit Wounds
  • Burton survives because the mutated Andromeda is no longer lethal to humans.  - The Andromeda Strain
  • Both men reaffirm their commitment to their work and to using lethal force if necessary to stop the other.  - Heat (1995 film)
  • While Paul is the most powerful emperor ever known, he is powerless to stop the lethal excesses of the religious juggernaut he has created.  - Dune Messiah

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