How to Use contamination in a Sentence

contamination

noun

• Part of that pause is not knowing the source of the contamination.
  — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2022
• Many stepped in to help in response to the E. coli contamination.
  — Scott Dance, Baltimore Sun, 10 Sep. 2022
• Ganymede’s thick shell means the Juice team doesn’t have to worry as much about contamination.
  — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 5 Apr. 2023
• But the longer removal takes, the farther the contamination can spread.
  — Andrew J. Whelton, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2023
• The area is tested again to confirm that the contamination is gone.
  — Uma Raja, Sun Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2025
• The same goes for sliced, shredded or crumbled cheeses, the contamination of which can be hard to discern.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
• The result of this is a very general idea, a polygon, of where the contamination is.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2024
• The leading cause of the rise, says WHO, is water contamination.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 26 Oct. 2022
• But the name of the drug and the type of potential contamination that inspectors worried about were not clear due to the FDA’s redactions.
  — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 20 Mar. 2025
• The company is working with the FDA to determine the source of the contamination.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 4 June 2022
• The charges allege the food contamination took place between April 1 and 23.
  — Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2024
• The contamination in Marinette and Peshtigo stems from the Tyco fire training site, where fires were set outdoors and then doused with foam.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2023
• The type of contamination that’s present is not harmful to people in vehicles because they’re raised off the ground, the water board said at the time.
  — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 2 May 2024
• The bill would also leave contamination for the state to clean up, which would still end up costing taxpayers.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 1 May 2023
• For the second time in a month, a Colorado library has closed its doors to clean up methamphetamine contamination.
  — CBS News, 17 Jan. 2023
• The Amazon Basin is known as a hot spot for mercury contamination.
  — Jill Langlois, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
• The close contact with the eggs allows the adults to coat them with the right compounds to keep them moist and safe from bacterial and fungal contamination.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Dec. 2023
• Robertson said one of the ship’s 26 potable water tanks was identified as the source of contamination.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
• Family friends came and went freely from the home that day leading critics to question contamination of the crime scene.
  — Jean Casarez, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
• There are also fears about contamination of the soil with white phosphorus and what that could mean for farming.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
• In March, the city of Idaho Springs had a mystery contamination leaking into their wastewater that turned the water a light shade of pink.
  — CBS News, 10 Nov. 2023
• Although the levels varied, the contamination was across the state.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Apr. 2024
• The fire was contained and there were no reports of injury or contamination.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2023
• The contamination of the bowls in Group C increased between swabbings.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 10 Apr. 2022
• If a severe storm rolls in, bringing surging seas and heavy rain, the dormant contamination could be brought back to the surface, drowning the area in a toxic stew.
  — Eli Ramos, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
• In public talks, Kennedy often spoke about the dangers of mercury contamination in fish, which is a by-product of coal plants.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
• The base is working to determine the extent of contamination at Fort McCoy and hopes to sign a contract for a study this summer.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 7 July 2022
• But the East Palestine resident who saw the fire from the accident from her house wants to see long-term testing for contamination.
  — Dino Grandoni and Joyce Koh, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2023
• This could include, but is not limited to, major vermin contamination.
  — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 4 Apr. 2025
• Following the latest contamination incident on Friday in Tokyo, Sukiya said the affected customer had received a refund.
  — John Liu, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2025