How to Use pollute in a Sentence

pollute

verb

• Car exhaust pollutes the air.
• Miles of beaches were polluted by the oil spill.
• The emissions rain down as an oily residue, polluting homes and farms.
  — Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The decade-old program, which allows large emitters to buy allowances from the state to pollute and trade them with other companies, is one of the largest in the world.
  — Sophie Austin, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2023
• Margo’s beloved grandfather and run by her uncle polluting both the water and the air.
  — Jane Smiley, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• In reality, the cars polluted as much as long-haul trucks.
  — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• The chemical also polluted the food web and destroyed the eggs of Bald Eagles.
  — The Editors, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• Sewage pollutes fish streams The sound of water is everywhere in the small towns of McDowell County, founded in 1858.
  — Sara Sidner, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
• But the chemicals can also pollute soil, fish, livestock, and food products.
  — Hannah Norman, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2023
• The combination of nuclear weapons testing and the Chernobyl event polluted the soil and food sources for wild boar for decades.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2023
• ChatGPT overs fear the tool will pollute the accuracy of their sites.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 5 Jan. 2023
• And capturing REEs from the clay deposits in which many are found requires leaching agents that pollute soil and groundwater.
  — Bydennis Normile, science.org, 1 Nov. 2022
• On the other, the crawl of regulatory action gave the plant years more to pollute the groundwater beneath it.
  — Jake Zuckerman, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
• Decades ago, people could go into a store and buy a can of refrigerants that eat away at the ozone, punch a hole in it and pollute the atmosphere, Fahey said.
  — Seth Borenstein, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• That has always been the shameless argument of rich, polluting nations in the politics of climate change, and Sunak did not shrink from it at all.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2023
• Plastic weighing as much as the Eiffel Tower pollutes the Great Lakes yearly.
  — USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
• Decades ago, people could go into a store and buy a can of refrigerants that eat away at the ozone, punch a hole in it, and pollute the atmosphere, Mr. Fahey said.
  — Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2023
• Pumped underground water could pollute rivers and streams.
  — Clifford Krauss Tamir Kalifa, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2023
• Forty percent of it ends up in landfills, polluting the natural nutrients of the countries it is sent to.
  — Essence, 3 Oct. 2023
• The obvious solution is not to allow air to be polluted at these levels at all!
  — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2023
• Testing in recent years has confirmed that the coal ash ponds are polluting the groundwater, which flows toward the White River.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 1 May 2023
• Natural gas is not an enemy and certainly does not pollute like oil and coal.
  — Michael Lee, Fox News, 2 Aug. 2023
• Nitrogen and phosphorus run-off has been known to pollute waters.
  — Eva Tesfaye, Journal Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2022
• Week by week, the streets of London are being polluted by hate, violence, and antisemitism.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Nov. 2023
• Plastic takes centuries to decompose and is polluting every realm of the planet.
  — Gabriella Sotelo, Treehugger, 24 Aug. 2023
• Buses that don't pollute the air yet can run the route with the same reliability as those that do, even when cold weather cuts into the battery range.
  — Tom Krisher, ajc, 4 Mar. 2023
• Objects that survive reentry pollute our oceans and lands at best and crash in populated areas at worst.
  — Moriba Jah, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2023
• Its mission: To find leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, so that energy companies can plug the leaks and reduce the emissions that pollute the air.
  — Cathy Bussewitz, ajc, 31 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024