How to Use fracking in a Sentence

fracking

noun

• The plan does not call for an outright ban on coal or fracking.
  — Amy McKeever, National Geographic, 17 Aug. 2020
• There's a lot of good jobs that come to the fracking industry.
  — NBC News, 25 Oct. 2020
• Just a dozen new fracking permits have been issued statewide this year.
  — Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2021
• There were the perennial goals, like a statewide fracking ban.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• The real threat to coal, though, is gas, which fracking has made cheap and abundant.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
• The governor said a draft of the study on steam fracking would be complete soon.
  — Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2020
• Or the oil and gas industry, which has prospered due to the fracking boom?
  — National Geographic, 4 Feb. 2020
• Some have gone farther, calling for an end to fracking across the nation.
  — Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2020
• Since then, fracking has led to production surging to all-time highs.
  — Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
• Early in the fracking boom, lines of water trucks idled outside the plants’ gates.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2021
• But if new wells aren’t drilled, there certainly won’t be any fracking at a certain point.
  — Harold Hamm, National Review, 23 Oct. 2020
• This includes on-site clean up and recycling of dirty water to use it on the next fracking job.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• Again, O’Keefe was not asking about a new fracking well in Wyoming.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2021
• Now, as oil and gas prices surge again, private shale drilling and fracking are leading a rebound in oil and gas drilling.
  — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2021
• Those included projects for fracking and for drilling in the Arctic.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
• The fracking industry, which has been bleeding cash for years, is among those pleading for help.
  — Beth Gardiner, National Geographic, 18 June 2020
• The fracking boom was the biggest energy story around the world.
  — Russell Gold, WSJ, 29 June 2018
• The end of the investigation is that fracking has not been proven to be the cause of any of these problems.
  — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
• Sometimes a community doesn’t like the idea of a new fracking project just outside of town.
  — Donald Hughes, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• Kamala Harris wants to get rid of the electoral college and ban fracking.
  — Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, 12 Sep. 2019
• The state of Ohio is hardly alone, and injection goes far beyond fracking.
  — Justin Nobel, Longreads, 30 Jan. 2018
• The good news is that the effects don’t extend far beyond the fracking sites, Currie says.
  — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 13 Dec. 2017
• In the race for the White House, politicians are hoping a vow to keep fracking will secure them votes.
  — Sean Keane, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024
• Aera received 49 of the 69 fracking permits that the state has approved this year.
  — Dustin Gardiner, SFChronicle.com, 24 Dec. 2020
• As for its well completions—or fracking—crews, Diamondback will go from four to five crews.
  — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 4 May 2026
• Drillers would be able to use the train to slash the cost of sand used in fracking, a process that fractures rock deep underground to force the release of oil and gas.
  — Bloomberg.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Biden has not called for an end to fracking, the process used in much of the United States to extract shale oil and natural gas.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
• And George Skelton looks at Newsom’s proposal to ban fracking of oil and gas wells.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2021
• The energy patch, led by the fracking boom in the Permian Basin, is slowing.
  — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 2 Jan. 2020
• Its most important offering is mesh frac sand used in hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
  — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025