How to Use formaldehyde in a Sentence

formaldehyde

noun

• The amount of formaldehyde in a flu shot isn’t enough to hurt you.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 19 Oct. 2020
• Though not high on the list of formaldehyde removers, this plant is a tough one to kill.
  — Emily Main, Good Housekeeping, 21 Nov. 2017
• The smell of formaldehyde did not bother me in the slightest.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 26 June 2021
• But the cure also proved to be a kind of poison, or at least formaldehyde.
  — Brett Martin, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
• Sources of formaldehyde at home are much more prevalent than some may imagine.
  — Tanya Akim, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• This finding supports the idea that formaldehyde may cause leukemia.
  — Dr. Manny Alvarez, Fox News, 14 July 2017
• And formaldehyde can be used to create amino acids, which are the building blocks of life.
  — Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• All products in the toolbox are free from formaldehyde and butanone oxime.
  — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 20 Nov. 2024
• The look’s one of big jars filled with formaldehyde and puckered, wan specimens.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Sep. 2021
• The lip balm is safe for sensitive skin and is free of sulfates, parabens, and formaldehyde.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Dec. 2020
• But the formaldehyde-free conversion varnish isn’t so durable.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
• The dancer, Linda Kay, kept the hand in a jar of formaldehyde in her bedroom.
  — Wired Blogs, WIRED, 20 Sep. 2006
• The cold catalyst filter, on the other hand, strips formaldehyde from the air.
  — Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2020
• Decades ago, some heard rumors that a dorm basement housed hundreds of diseased brains in jars of formaldehyde.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 2 May 2018
• And in nail strengtheners, formaldehyde is supposed to bond with the nail’s keratin.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 29 Jan. 2024
• Among the objets up for bid was a sculpture of a golden calf presented in a tank of formaldehyde.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2021
• When someone drinks methanol, it’s converted into formaldehyde in the body.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• The second is a carbon prefilter that absorbs formaldehyde and odors such as smoke and cooking smells.
  — Matt Jancer, Wired, 1 Apr. 2021
• The air in the basement room was slowly filling with formaldehyde, which carried with it a cloying odor.
  — Oliver Whang, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2022
• What is the artistic value of a shark pickled in formaldehyde (à la Damien Hirst)?
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
• This was because the cadavers were preserved in formaldehyde.
  — Will Self, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• It's protected by uncolored wax oil and is free of paint and formaldehyde to keep you and your family safe.
  — Andrea Marie, PEOPLE.com, 28 Apr. 2021
• For months, as his case dragged on, the key piece of evidence was submerged in a bucket of formaldehyde and stored in his lawyer’s office.
  — Lewis Kamb, The Seattle Times, 8 Mar. 2018
• His shirt reeked of the flowery-formaldehyde tartness of mothballs pickling dress pockets in a closet.
  — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
• And that means more smoke, and longer exposure to gasses like carbon monoxide and dioxide, benzene, formaldehyde, and ozone.
  — Wired, 28 July 2022
• An average apple contains 600 times more formaldehyde than is found in a dose of the flu vaccine.
  — Anne P. Kim, The Conversation, 13 Nov. 2020
• For starters, Magic Sleek doesn’t include formaldehyde, so Holbrook didn’t have to wear a mask.
  — Stella Bugbee, The Cut, 21 July 2017
• And then there was the snake, now floating in formaldehyde and introduced as Exhibit 1.
  — Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
• Worse yet, the beer was rumored to be fortified with a dose of formaldehyde to prevent spoilage—a mummified beer in the land of the pyramids.
  — Steve Hindy, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2015
• By contrast, chemists whipped up the ingredients in Bakelite—phenol and formaldehyde—in the lab.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Oct. 2022