How to Use befoul in a Sentence

befoul

verb

• But the country’s blond-sand beaches are now scarred with plastic bottles and its mountain streams befouled by open dumps.
  — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2019
• For the sailors, teams, organizers and sponsors, the Volvo Ocean Race is part of a larger race against time, a mission to curb the use of products that litter the ocean and befoul the air.
  — Washington Post, 18 May 2018
• Present day: Look how the Broncos and Raiders are befouling what was once a beautiful ritual.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2019
• The ground is befouled with glass and debris from the disaster, requiring several inches of dirt to be scraped and removed.
  — star-telegram, 28 Dec. 2013
• Ambrosino decries the garbage and neglect that have befouled places that could be developed into parks and other public resources.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2019
• No matter what, not too far in the future, a standard race in which 33 cars burn fuel at obscene rates and befoul the immediate atmosphere with tire smoke and arrogant levels of noise . .
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 19 July 2017
• The repairs to the dike are vital to prevent the runoff of polluted water from the lake into nearby waterways that lead to green algae growth that befouls waterways and threatens marine life.
  — Gray Rohrer, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 June 2017
• The water is almost entirely undrinkable, and raw sewage is befouling beaches and fishing grounds.
  — David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2018
• The repairs are vital to prevent the runoff of polluted water from the lake into nearby waterways that lead to green algae growth that befouls waterways and threatens marine life.
  — Gray Rohrer, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 June 2017
• Microfibers from synthetic fabrics and other pollutants befoul our rivers and oceans.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Nov. 2019
• Whether that changes between now and whenever Democrats bring articles of impeachment to the House floor will depend on their ability to make the case that the president has not only befouled his office but must be removed from it.
  — Jonathan Allen, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2019
• Police set the trap that resulted in Tramaglini’s arrest after high school staffers and coaches complained to their on-site resource officer that somebody was befouling their track and field.
  — NBC News, 3 May 2018
• School staff and the resource officer were notified that someone was regularly befouling the track and football field, and authorities began surveilling the area.
  — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 7 June 2018
• Taking a judicial appointee's comments out of context and using tribal political outrage to befoul them is not unique among Democrats.
  — John Kass, Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Sep. 2017
• That's because Walden Pond, the once-pristine jewel that inspired the American naturalist and philosopher in the mid 1800s, has been befouled by generations of swimmers urinating in the water, according to a new study.
  — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2018
• The Trump administration is poised to open the door to selling new offshore drilling rights from the Atlantic to the Arctic oceans, igniting a fight with coastal residents worried about oil spills befouling beaches and jeopardizing tourism dollars.
  — Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Houston Chronicle, 3 Jan. 2018
• Sociologists and psychologists could probably help explain the phenomenon, how creating a sense of belonging prevents people from befouling the waters with free-floating cruelty and abuse.
  — John Warner, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018

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