How to Use ozone in a Sentence
ozone
noun- A light breeze filled the rooms of our seaside cottage with ozone.
- Scientists are concerned about ozone depletion.
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My goodness, what’s happening to the ozone and the ice caps?
—Liz Shannon Miller, The Verge, 2 July 2019
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Hurt’s role, amid some of the wilder flights of imagination, was often to reel them in from the ozone.
—David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 8 May 2018
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That's more than last year's 37 — and the ozone period doesn't end until Aug. 31.
—John Frank, Axios, 6 Aug. 2024
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It’s been No. 1 for ozone pollution for decades, Pruitt said.
—Jen Christensen, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
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The region has recorded 13 Spare the Air days so far — some due to an uptick in ozone rather than smoke, Richardson said.
—Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Sep. 2021
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The sun is what makes the reaction go and turns those compounds into ozone.
—Molly Sullivan, sacbee, 18 Apr. 2018
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The levels of many ODSs have been reduced, and the ozone is recovering.
—Megesh Tiwari, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2023
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The southwest part of the state has the highest levels of ozone, and the metro and southeast had the most fine particulates.
—Christopher Magan, Twin Cities, 11 June 2019
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Cars still add a lot of pollution, and are a dominant source of ozone.
—Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2020
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This causes ground-level ozone to build up, leading to more high-ozone days.
—Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 27 June 2024
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The aim of buying credits is to lower the overall impact on ozone.
—Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2018
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Ground-level smog contains ozone, which is the main health concern.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN, 12 Apr. 2022
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Salt Lake City also ranked two spots better this year for ozone pollution, moving from the eighth-worst city in the U.S. to the 10th.
—Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Apr. 2022
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This was before the Clean Air Act, when ozone alert days were common, and children were told to stay indoors.
—Ryan Kost, SFChronicle.com, 3 Oct. 2019
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The addition of methane to mimic ozone leads to an increase of 4 Kelvin.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 July 2024
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Lake and Cuyahoga counties have the highest ozone levels in the region.
—James F. McCarty, cleveland.com, 22 Mar. 2018
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There’s no rest for the wicked, except during a pair of songs that toy with psychedelia and dub, as if the ozone-free sky is finally too much to take.
—Chris Richards, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
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As temps climb and ozone levels rise, Utah officials say, parking the car and taking UTA will help clear the air.
—Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022
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For ozone, this is the maximum 8-hour ozone average in 24 hours.
—Emma Marsden, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 June 2025
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The pool and the hot tub use ozone technology to be completely chlorine-free.
—Everett Potter, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
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The hole in the ozone that forms annually over the South Pole is now larger than Antarctica.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Sep. 2021
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The two-unit Spruce coal plant each day emits over 11 tons of nitrogen oxides, the compounds that react to form ozone and acid rain.
—Diego Mendoza-Moyers, ExpressNews.com, 2 Nov. 2020
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Seven of the 10 U.S. cities with the worst ozone pollution are in California.
—Matthew Daly, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
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The Charlotte metro area met federal clean air standards for ozone in 2015.
—Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 18 Apr. 2018
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Red signifies the ozone is at an unhealthy level for all.
—Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 1 May 2018
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For example, when faced with a lawsuit by 15 states, Pruitt dropped his objection to the ozone rule.
—Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2018
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Air pollutants like ozone and nitrogen dioxide can cause inflammation in the nerves that play a role in migraines.
—Danielle Wilhour, The Conversation, 10 July 2025
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Your laundry room will smell a bit like ozone (think of how the air smells after a thunderstorm) but that's the only indicator that anything is different.
—Anthony Karcz, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
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