How to Use pollution in a Sentence

pollution

noun

• The tests showed high levels of pollution in the water.
• The fish are dying of pollution.
• The act has ushered in decades of air pollution progress.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2023
• Each brings with it pollution in the form of a day-and-night barrage of trucks laden with merchandise.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• Then there are the P’s: pesticides, pollution, poop, pee and pretty much anything that may be in the great outdoors.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• The glitter ban is just one piece of the European Union's plan to curtail plastic pollution.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023
• The team was searching for harmful levels of air pollution.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 12 July 2023
• Not that long ago, Beijing was still a city of bicycles; today, it’s plagued by air pollution, much of it produced by cars.
  — David Owen, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2024
• What do big cities owe those towns and tribes for producing our power and living with our air and water pollution?
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
• How to stay safe from air pollution PM2.5 is a mixture of chemicals that change based on what’s burning, Anenberg said.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 16 July 2023
• The company’s plans to install the pollution controls haven’t changed, according to Woods.
  — Mike Rogoway | [e-mail], oregonlive, 14 June 2023
• Her father, George, was commissioner of air and water pollution for the State of New Jersey.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2024
• There are skincare products out there that help to protect your skin from the damaging effects of pollution.
  — Daley Quinn, Health, 30 Aug. 2023
• Lesser suspects Lesser suspects in the search include a dearth of African dust, which cools like sulfur pollution, as well as changes in the jet stream and a slowdown in ocean currents.
  — Seth Borenstein, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
• Brugge said new research like this broadens the understanding of air pollution’s harms and overall toll.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 30 Nov. 2023
• Meanwhile, Google is using AI to map oil and gas infrastructure to create a global map of pollution sources.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 14 Feb. 2024
• Judith Vale, New York’s deputy solicitor general, said as much as 65% of some states' smog pollution comes from out of state.
  — Matthew Daly, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2024
• The Westside drill site and its pipelines have long been a concern to surrounding neighborhoods, which have complained about noise, foul smells, air pollution and an oil spill in 2021.
  — Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023
• But with air pollution comes more serious health problems, too.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2023
• Uber is under pressure from governments around the world to get more of its drivers into EVs to reduce tailpipe pollution and fight climate change.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 10 Jan. 2024
• And people may not know when they’re being exposed to dangerous levels of air pollution.
  — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• Cloud trails like this may form when water vapor condenses around tiny pollution particles spewed from the smokestacks of ships.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024
• There may be half of them who deny climate change, but definitely not pollution.
  — David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• The final rule also gives car manufacturers a slower phase-in of pollution limits than the EPA had proposed last year.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• And also our student environment, our levels of air pollution, the risk of injury.
  — Rob Reddick, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2023
• The cause of the intense annual air pollution that curses Delhi and most of northern India at the start of winter is difficult to determine.
  — Hari Kumar, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Diesel engine busses emit high levels of pollution that contribute to poor air quality and heat-trapping gasses in the atmosphere.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Feb. 2024
• Which country in Southeast Asia is dealing with major air pollution concerns?
  — CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
• Oceans play a vital role as a buffer against the climate crisis by absorbing planet-heating pollution.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 4 Aug. 2023
• The Taj Mahal has already endured years of air pollution, insects and tourist crowds that have damaged its iconic mausoleum and caused parts of its exterior to turn yellow-green.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 18 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024