How to Use pollute in a Sentence

pollute

verb

• Car exhaust pollutes the air.
• Miles of beaches were polluted by the oil spill.
• The billowing haze and ash will cloud and pollute the state for weeks if not months.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 15 Sep. 2020
• 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
• The emissions rain down as an oily residue, polluting homes and farms.
  — Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
• Some fans think that mark is like a virus, polluting Bran from the inside out.
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 26 Apr. 2019
• Car engines have advanced over the years to pollute less.
  — CBS News, 10 Dec. 2021
• Despite that progress, the air is still unhealthy and polluted in many parts of the country.
  — Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 23 Apr. 2025
• The heat produced from the Earth’s core not only doesn’t pollute, but is also cheap.
  — Bloomberg.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• 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
• This could mean airlines will get a free pass to pollute until 2024.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 4 June 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
• But this is the first time Samara is being polluted with it on her walk home.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2024
• 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
• There is a new push for electric school buses, which would pollute less.
  — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
• 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
• These plants feed on nutrients that pollute and cloud the waters.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 11 July 2018
• 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
• What is the potential for neighbors to pollute the water?
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2025
• Nicholas warned this disparity would see those that pollute the least suffer the most.
  — NBC News, 9 Aug. 2021
• 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
• Indigenous groups want to know if that means the river can now sue people who pollute it.
  — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 11 Dec. 2020
• 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
• 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 idea was to ensure that the EPA could protect those new bodies from being polluted.
  — Christopher Harress | [e-mail], al, 17 Sep. 2019
• This is our drinking water that is being polluted, and for years no one seemed to care.
  — David North, Chicago Reader, 10 July 2018
• 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
• 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
• Officials told state media that of the 206 karst caves inspected in the area, two-thirds were polluted to some degree.
  — Karla Cripps, CNN Money, 17 June 2025
• Adam is showing how even language, the medium of the novel, can be polluted, corrupted, and transformed into a means of exploitation.
  — Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 21 June 2025