How to Use smog in a Sentence

smog

noun

• Phillips’ loose lines and florid style evoke the smog-washed haze of the ‘80s.
  — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
• The greenhouse gas rating is 5 and the smog rating is 5; both out of 10.
  — Tony Leopardo, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2024
• However, by this point our eyes and lungs were on fire from the gray haze of both the smog and heat.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2022
• German native first thought the state’s smog was just fog.
  — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 July 2022
• Polluting states want the Supreme Court to pause Biden's plan to reduce smog.
  — USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
• More:Can face masks protect from wildfire smoke and smog?
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 30 June 2023
• Wildflowers hadn’t bloomed yet, many trails were still closed and smog was at its worst.
  — Adam H. Graham, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2022
• No wonder the super-rich don’t tend to stop and smell the roses: The sky is blanketed in smog.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 3 May 2023
• Blast furnaces cranked out profits, steel coils and thick smog.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 19 Aug. 2023
• Ground-level smog contains ozone, which is the main health concern.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 12 Apr. 2022
• Vog is a term that refers to volcanic smog, state officials say.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 29 Nov. 2022
• Winds flow up and down the mountainsides like tides, sweeping away and returning the smog.
  — Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 4 Apr. 2023
• The Flats, once dense with factories and smog in the mid-1900s, looks nothing like its polluted past.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 14 Mar. 2022
• More than 100 million people live in counties that get an F for ozone smog, the report says.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 19 Apr. 2023
• Maybe that’s from growing up in New York City, and really being around dirt and smog.
  — Jamie Kravitz, Woman's Day, 30 June 2022
• From right, Vehicles drive along a highway as smog lingers over Salt Lake City.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2022
• Back then, the skyway was often enveloped in smog and always smelled.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2023
• The white marble of the Taj Mahal, which is normally wrapped in smog, shone brightly against an azure sky.
  — Tim De Chant, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2022
• If the heat, the altitude and the passionate fans at Mexico’s iconic fortress home don’t get you, the smog will.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022
• Most of these substances form as solids, which must then rain down on the surface in the form of a kind of photochemical smog.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
• The wind sent plumes of toxic black smog over the city and seeping into the plant, which the Ukrainians had long used as a stronghold in the face of Russian advances.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• The point of electric cars is to cut tailpipe emissions, a leading source of carbon dioxide and the pollutants that cause of smog.
  — New York Times, 8 Feb. 2022
• Utahns who live along the Wasatch Front are familiar with inversion — the smog that fouls the air during winter.
  — Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Apr. 2022
• Preserving the color palette of the original, city gray and smog brown.
  — Walton Muyumba, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• Seemingly out of nowhere, a fairy god-producer appeared in a sparkling cloud of smog.
  — EW.com, 4 Mar. 2024
• The smog, haze and patchy fog plaguing northern Utah valleys isn’t going anywhere for a while — although there is a chance for a change at the end of the week.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Jan. 2022
• One recent evening at a scenic overlook not far from where P-22 lived, the setting sun tinged the low-hanging smog a brilliant shade of lilac.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2023
• And then there is … light — the light, the overhead halo of blue, sometimes blanched into whiteness, sometimes edged with smog-sepia.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
• The city’s residents are used to a blanket of smog that blots out the sky and heralds the arrival of the Hindu festival of Diwali.
  — Vibhuti Agarwal, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2023
• In the bush, there are no email backlogs, no train delays or parking tickets or smog warnings.
  — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024