How to Use pollute in a Sentence
pollute
verb- Car exhaust pollutes the air.
- Miles of beaches were polluted by the oil spill.
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The billowing haze and ash will cloud and pollute the state for weeks if not months.
—Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 15 Sep. 2020
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The world needs a plan to adapt The risks of aged, polluting cars sent abroad will not be borne by the Global South alone.
—David Zipper, Vox, 3 Sep. 2024
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The emissions rain down as an oily residue, polluting homes and farms.
—Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
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Some fans think that mark is like a virus, polluting Bran from the inside out.
—Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 26 Apr. 2019
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Car engines have advanced over the years to pollute less.
—CBS News, 10 Dec. 2021
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Despite that progress, the air is still unhealthy and polluted in many parts of the country.
—Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 23 Apr. 2025
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The heat produced from the Earth’s core not only doesn’t pollute, but is also cheap.
—Bloomberg.com, 25 Mar. 2018
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Taking all the bad things away that pollute the river helped me have the courage to clean up all the pollution that was in my life, too.
—Shelina Lal, The Seattle Times, 8 June 2018
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This could mean airlines will get a free pass to pollute until 2024.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 4 June 2021
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That means plastic straws get tossed in the garbage, ending up in landfills and polluting the ocean.
—Christina Caron, New York Times, 9 July 2018
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But this is the first time Samara is being polluted with it on her walk home.
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2024
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Deep-fryer oil should not be poured on the ground or down a storm drain, which could pollute waterways and clog the storm pipe.
—Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 26 Nov. 2020
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There is a new push for electric school buses, which would pollute less.
—JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
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The currents in the Adriatic Sea flow from south to north—and so flows the waste and pollutes the northern Adriatic coast.
—Kaila Contreras, Houston Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2018
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These plants feed on nutrients that pollute and cloud the waters.
—Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 11 July 2018
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The crew complied—but Matveev told the officials that his ship had an oil leak and might pollute their waters.
—Tristram Korten, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Aug. 2020
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What is the potential for neighbors to pollute the water?
—Ron Lieber, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2025
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Nicholas warned this disparity would see those that pollute the least suffer the most.
—NBC News, 9 Aug. 2021
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Still, perhaps the best way to tackle the issue isn’t policing the sale but polluting the appeal.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2024
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Indigenous groups want to know if that means the river can now sue people who pollute it.
—Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 11 Dec. 2020
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Wildfires are back, and with them is the risk of smoke clouding the metro Detroit sky, polluting the air quality.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 31 May 2024
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But because the Great Salt Lake is drying up, toxins threaten to pollute the city’s air.
—Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
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The idea was to ensure that the EPA could protect those new bodies from being polluted.
—Christopher Harress | Charress@al.com, al, 17 Sep. 2019
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This is our drinking water that is being polluted, and for years no one seemed to care.
—David North, Chicago Reader, 10 July 2018
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But not all automakers are on board with a plan to pollute the planet for as long as possible.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 June 2022
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Thames21 is a group that organizes clean-ups along the foreshore of the River Thames, in the UK, and educates people to not pollute it.
—Mark Tutton and Ed Scott-Clarke, CNN, 24 June 2019
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Tourists and commuters have multiple choices for sightseeing and transportation beyond dangerous, polluting helicopters, and NYC will still thrive as a tourist mecca with many fewer helicopters plaguing our skies.
—Eric Katzman, New York Daily News, 25 May 2025
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The samples are tested for temperature, color, clarity and levels of salt, chemicals and coliform bacteria, which could indicate the water is polluted.
—Yuvraj Khanna, New York Times, 1 May 2025
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