How to Use polyvinyl alcohol in a Sentence

polyvinyl alcohol

noun

• The pods—used for laundry as well—are wrapped in a type of plastic called polyvinyl alcohol, or PVA.
  — Matt Fuchs, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
• That’s the power of the polyvinyl alcohol material, a sponge-like fabric that can hold eight times its weight in water.
  — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2026
• The thin wrapping portion of the pod, which contains the liquid detergent, is made from PVA, a dissolvable form of plastic also known as polyvinyl alcohol.
  — Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Nov. 2025
• Powder detergents may increase friction during washing, while many pods and detergent sheets contain polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), a dissolvable plastic that may not fully break down in wastewater systems.
  — Ryan Brennan may 11, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 May 2026
• Graduate students in Allen’s group are now engineering sensors and even batteries from polymers such as poly(lactic co-glycolic) acid (PLGA), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), and polycaprolactone (PCL), the same materials used in dissolvable surgical sutures.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2018