Examples of preservative in a Sentence

Noun This food does not contain any artificial preservatives. The wood was treated with preservative.

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective Till’s murder made somehow more lurid through the preservative lacquer of folk heroism. — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2022 Sodium azide, a colorless, tasteless and odorless powder, is used as a propellant in airbags, as a herbicide and a pest control agent as well as a laboratory preservative agent. — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 23 Feb. 2022 Cookies can have too much sugar, saturated fat, salt, and additives such as preservative. — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2021 The point was to promote its new, preservative-free Whopper. — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 9 Sep. 2021 My sister gets flu shots without preservatives and has been unable to find out if any of the COVID shots available are preservative-free. — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2021 On top of what a wine already contains, a winemaker can add more sulfur as a preservative and antioxidant, to protect against a wide range of ills, including bacteria. — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Aug. 2021 LyondellBasell produces a form of the acid that is used as a food preservative and flavor additive. — Tom Steele, Dallas News, 28 July 2021 Tannins’ preservative properties help give wine endurance. — Washington Post, 16 July 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Most of the narratives cited the same lethal method, a preservative used for curing meat, The Times found. — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2021 Most of the narratives cited the same lethal method, a preservative used for curing meat, The Times found. — New York Times, 9 Dec. 2021 Use a clean vase to prevent bacteria and fungus from killing the flowers, and add flower preservative. — oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2022 Natural Flavor, Xantham Gum, Citric Acid, Sodium Benzoate (preservative), Yellow 5, Blue 1. — Melissa Matthews, Men's Health, 10 Feb. 2022 Monsanto originally produced the PCBs, a chemical preservative used in light fixtures and caulking in Sky Valley’s 1950s- and 1960s-era buildings. — Lulu Ramadan, ProPublica, 7 Feb. 2022 The lights and caulking were infused with PCBs, an effective preservative popular in school construction before research revealed its toxicity in the 1970s. — Lulu Ramadan, ProPublica, 24 Jan. 2022 The archive contains jars of tissue from the late 19th century, including a few whole lungs, all floating in jars of pale yellow liquid, the alcohol that was used as a preservative. — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022 The wine list focuses on small family producers of natural wines who use organic or biodynamic farming and no chemicals, with the exception of a tiny bit of sulfur as a preservative, depending on the grape and the region. — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Feb. 2022 See More

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