How to Use carbon in a Sentence

carbon

noun

• The carbon filter removes up to 99.7 percent of smoke, dust, and pet dander.
  — Ellen McAlpine, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2023
• Brazil—and, by extension, the planet that depends on the Amazon as a carbon sink—seems to be at a turning point.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
• Livestock pastures with trees have been shown to hold more carbon than open pasture lands.
  — Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
• As with all Priority bikes, the Current comes with a carbon drive belt first used in autos rather than a chain.
  — Nathan Borchelt, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2024
• The event has done the one thing such confabs are supposed never to do, which is expose the truth about climate change and the race to net-zero carbon emissions.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
• This forest type holds back much less water and stores much less carbon, which are key to slowing climate change.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2023
• In this way, carbon is slowly deposited onto the thin slice.
  — Ana De Oliva, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024
• The trees’ wood and bark contains a lot of cellulose, a large biomolecule made up of the elements carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 June 2023
• His government has touted new, super-fast trains and plans to make the railways carbon neutral by 2030.
  — Bibhudatta Pradhan, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2023
• Here’s a list of our favorite plant tech to keep you informed and inspired along the way: Cleaning the air Plants help capture carbon and other pollutants from the air.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
• At PwC—where air travel is the single biggest source of carbon emissions—flying business class has just been banned.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023
• Meanwhile, the United States and Europe saw decreases in carbon emissions due, in part, to burning less coal.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• And the benefits are enormous, even without accounting for the fires, storms and floods fueled by carbon emissions.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• Featured in Monday’s episode, a plan to go carbon neutral by 2050 was discussed around what industry?
  — CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
• Trevor Hughes: Most people these days have sort of heard and understood that carbon emissions are very bad for the climate in terms of causing climate change.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2024
• For the world to limit the worst effects of climate change, nations will have to drastically reduce their carbon emissions.
  — David Schechter, Chance Horner, CBS News, 16 May 2023
• The country also has the most per capita carbon emissions globally.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 30 Jan. 2024
• In the long term, trees can also capture and store carbon, helping limit emissions into the atmosphere.
  — Dan Lambe, Treehugger, 28 Aug. 2023
• Besides zero carbon emissions, Sirius says the jet will produce 60 dBA from the air, or about the same noise level as a conversation in a restaurant.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2024
• The idea of storing excess carbon in rocks to combat climate change is hotly debated.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 Oct. 2023
• Now the California Air Resources Board is amending the program to align with its plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2045.
  — Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 23 Feb. 2024
• Advocates are hopeful that France’s robust high-speed rail lines will help the country decrease its carbon emissions.
  — Alex Chun, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2023
• The company plans to install carbon capture systems in five other buildings this year.
  — Cathy Bussewitz, Fortune, 15 May 2023
• Much of this warming is already locked in—the long tail of earlier generations’ carbon emissions.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
• How did those carbon emissions actually get into the air?
  — Michael Calore, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2023
• Keeping in line with the modern aesthetics of the latest GE Profile machines, this front-loading washer comes in a dark carbon graphite finish.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 June 2023
• Perhaps our most damning waste legacy is the carbon emissions that have unleashed extreme weather patterns and species loss.
  — Matthew King, The New Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
• The boreal region’s soils have long buffered the planet against warming by storing huge quantities of carbon and keeping it out of the atmosphere.
  — David J. Cooper, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2023
• There is also a lot of carbon in that leaf, which holds energy that can be used by other organisms such as bacteria and fungi.
  — Brian Darby, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
• But many of the leaders of the countries that cause the most heat-trapping carbon pollution will not be attending the United Nations gathering or hear the protesters’ plea.
  — Seth Borenstein, Chicago Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024