How to Use asbestos in a Sentence

asbestos

noun

• Coal needs to join asbestos and PCBs on the phase-out list.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 29 June 2019
• The firm has about two-thirds of the asbestos cases pending in the court.
  — Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 5 Mar. 2021
• Four schools have had to close due to asbestos so far this year.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 8 Apr. 2023
• The floors had asbestos in them and needed to be replaced.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2023
• Last spring, the EPA proposed a ban on chrysotile, or white asbestos, the most common type.
  — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2023
• The town was built up around the massive Jeffrey Mine, once the largest opencast chrysotile asbestos mine in the world.
  — Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2020
• For an older home, there of course could be things like asbestos within the home.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 31 Aug. 2022
• Lead paint peels from walls marked with warnings of asbestos.
  — Author: Richard Read, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2019
• At issue is whether the talc contained trace amounts of asbestos.
  — Erika D. Smith Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2021
• Dozens of asbestos companies have done so since the 1980s.
  — Geoff Mulvihill, The Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2019
• Talc had a bad spell for a while there, because some supplies found traces of asbestos.
  — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 31 May 2023
• Some videos, for instance, show a ceiling with asbestos and puddles in the road.
  — Lindsay Ellis, WSJ, 20 May 2022
• Lung cancer has also been linked to all forms of asbestos.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2023
• So an inspector arrived and the good news is that there was no sign of asbestos.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2019
• Not to mention the toxic stew of asbestos, lead, lithium, and who knows what else that had burned and settled in the air and soil.
  — Josh Eells, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
• It was condemned in 2019 for asbestos and mold, and residents were forced to leave.
  — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2024
• But even there, the community had to sue the Air Force when asbestos was discovered in the soil.
  — Ralph Vartabedian, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• Olin’s letter marks a turning point in the battle over asbestos in the United States.
  — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2023
• The local employer was an asbestos mine, above the lake.
  — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2021
• Most of these places have not been renovated, and many are filled with lead paint and asbestos.
  — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 29 July 2021
• The new rule would ban chrysotile asbestos, the only ongoing use of asbestos in the United States.
  — Matthew Daly, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
• As the fire burned, residents feared that ash and debris from the World War II-era hangar contained asbestos.
  — Roberto Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023
• Roofs leak and ceiling tiles, made with asbestos, fall during rains.
  — Gina Ferazzi, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022
• The question of whether J&J’s talc powder contains asbestos flared up again last fall.
  — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
• Tort claims spiked in the 1980s, driven in part by damages filed by workers exposed to asbestos.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 25 Dec. 2022
• The third wild card is a parasite that feeds off your gray matter and replaces it with asbestos.
  — Grant Brisbee, The Athletic, 24 July 2024
• Water leaks have caused the campus to cancel labs and tape down warped floor tiles that rise and expose asbestos.
  — Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2021
• Among other things, the memo said the city didn’t look into disclosures about asbestos in the building.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2021
• The remaining work includes the removal of asbestos and electrical wiring.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 4 Mar. 2025
• Wiseman said the demolition process takes time as permits are secured, asbestos and other hazards are removed, and utilities are disconnected.
  — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025