How to Use contaminant in a Sentence

contaminant

noun

• The contaminants travel through the stalk of the plant into the leaves and flowers.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2023
• On the first night, temperatures in the teens and very light winds would have kept airborne contaminants close to the ground over the town.
  — Jill Neimark, STAT, 21 Feb. 2023
• Even loose dirt left on one’s boots from a trip to a farm can be a source of contaminants to the local flora and fauna.
  — Erica Kasper, WIRED, 15 July 2023
• The city is using a computer model to track the movement of the plume of contaminant through the river.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
• All the contaminants remain on the other side of the cell, where they can be collected and disposed of.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 June 2023
• Wastewater plants are not equipped to deal with this kind of contaminant, according to the study.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 24 July 2023
• In the clean rooms, magnets are finished with the help of robots, such as this blue one in the foreground, to remove contaminants.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 July 2023
• The system pumps water through the membrane, whose tiny pores allow the water to pass through, but trap the PFAS and other contaminants.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2023
• The smoke pouring from the stacks, and clouds of contaminants were both going into Norwood and settling there back into the 1940s.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2024
• Each bottle seals tight and is designed to keep the product fresh, potent, and contaminant-free.
  — Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2023
• And the industry’s contaminants in the Bay Area have rendered a number of sites toxic.
  — Rakesh Kumar, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2023
• Water was pumped out of the affected creeks, the EPA said, and dams were constructed to mitigate the spread of contaminants.
  — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2023
• Many of the heavy metals and other contaminants in coal ash are known carcinogens.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2024
• The wide range of contaminants can lead to wound infections, skin rash and gastrointestinal illness, the CDC says.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
• All fish oils are required to be cleaned of mercury, PCBs, and other harmful contaminants.
  — Willow Jarosh, Ms, Rd, Health, 22 Aug. 2023
• The contaminants’ impact on marine life won’t be known definitively for months, if not years.
  — Katharine Sanderson, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
• These devices will alert you to contaminants in the air and trigger purification efforts to rid the air of toxins in those spaces.
  — House Beautiful, 7 Apr. 2023
• There were also no contaminants detected that came as a result of the derailment, the release states.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 15 Feb. 2023
• The Army has set up two treatment plants at Fort Ord to remove solvents and other contaminants from groundwater.
  — Ralph Vartabedian, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• Most soil tests don’t look for contaminants, such as lead, but some places, such as the lab at Rutgers, offer it as an additional service.
  — Lauren David, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
• For decades before Bluestone acquired the plant in 2019, nearby residents were exposed to some of the nation’s highest levels of contaminants in the air and soil.
  — Max Blau, ProPublica, 1 Sep. 2023
• So far, tests have found no concerning levels of contaminants in the drinking water.
  — Brittany Peterson, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
• But other contaminants can also find their way out of wells, including salty brines.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 May 2023
• The emergence of a new, pervasive contaminant like PFAS is not something most systems are prepared to manage.
  — The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2023
• This testing process guarantees that the CBD content stated on the packaging is accurate and that there are no harmful contaminants present in the treats.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
• But states are getting better at screening for contaminants, Seaberg said.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2023
• Like the canaries that British coal miners brought with them to detect the presence of hazardous gases in the mines, the female belugas signaled that contaminants were putting humans at risk.
  — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
• Even if the lead test kits the union used had produced a false positive, Kelley said, the sandblasting and now water-blasting is sending contaminants into the air and the streets, with the public unaware of the hazards.
  — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• Thousands of fish were killed by the contamination washing down steams and rivers after the wreck, but state officials say the contaminants have since been contained.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 18 Feb. 2023
• The Jolie removes chlorine, heavy metals & other contaminants from your shower water to improve skin and hair health.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 8 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024