How to Use pollute in a Sentence

pollute

verb

• Car exhaust pollutes the air.
• Miles of beaches were polluted by the oil spill.
• By how much less polluted the state is.
  — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
• Just how much of this polluting powder is stored in these pits?
  — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 24 Sep. 2017
• There is a new push for electric school buses, which would pollute less.
  — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
• The emissions rain down as an oily residue, polluting homes and farms.
  — Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
• This process aims to prevent gas from polluting the air.
  — Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 30 Oct. 2025
• The billowing haze and ash will cloud and pollute the state for weeks if not months.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 15 Sep. 2020
• Plastic bits pollute the world’s oceans, beaches, and rivers.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2017
• Some fans think that mark is like a virus, polluting Bran from the inside out.
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 26 Apr. 2019
• Stop polluting and give them stable, growing economies in which to be raised.
  — Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• These plants feed on nutrients that pollute and cloud the waters.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 11 July 2018
• But this is the first time Samara is being polluted with it on her walk home.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2024
• Indigenous groups want to know if that means the river can now sue people who pollute it.
  — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 11 Dec. 2020
• This is our drinking water that is being polluted, and for years no one seemed to care.
  — David North, Chicago Reader, 10 July 2018
• Despite that progress, the air is still unhealthy and polluted in many parts of the country.
  — Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 23 Apr. 2025
• Most space debris pollutes low-Earth orbit.
  — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 22 Sep. 2025
• Nicholas warned this disparity would see those that pollute the least suffer the most.
  — NBC News, 9 Aug. 2021
• 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
• The heat produced from the Earth’s core not only doesn’t pollute, but is also cheap.
  — Bloomberg.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• Her absence haunts the episode, which is built around a protest against the building of a mine that could further pollute the land.
  — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Mar. 2026
• This could mean airlines will get a free pass to pollute until 2024.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 4 June 2021
• 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
• 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
• Others live and work near polluting freeways.
  — Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
• Nothing in art about their being polluting.
  — Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
• These small, toxic waste items pollute city streets, beaches and waterways.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2025
• Sometimes, the water can be polluted and not look brown, but more cloudy or even colorless.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
• Our species has polluted the planet, so that grey clouds of smoke invade many urban landscapes.
  — Bandamlak Y. Jemberie, Variety, 11 Aug. 2025
• The prospect of city bans across Europe on polluting cars is drawing closer.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018