How to Use climate in a Sentence

climate

noun
  • A climate of fear prevails in the city.
  • The country's climate is ideal for growing grapes.
  • These trees only grow in humid climates.
  • The company is trying to develop a positive climate for innovation.
  • There’s an urgent need for Hollywood to tackle the climate crisis.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Related article The ‘world’s largest’ vacuum to suck climate pollution out of the air has opened.
    Issy Ronald, CNN, 23 Oct. 2024
  • But this report, Ms. Cleetus says, shows that technological change is not enough to fix the climate crisis.
    Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The frequency of shootings in the U.S. also picks up in less hospitable climate conditions.
    Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Critics have argued that the protestors are not taking the potential outcome of the climate crisis seriously enough.
    Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The PwC team focuses on three of the biggest risks of the moment — cybercrime, supply chain disruption and the climate crisis.
    Roger Trapp, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Mysterious climate cycle blamed for millennia of chaotic weather.
    Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Harvesting peat contributes to the climate crisis and degrades the natural environment, among other things.
    Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 16 Mar. 2023
  • In the first months of 2019, the fight against climate change was in bad shape.
    Justin Worland, Time, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The plan to save the world from the worst of climate change is built on data.
    Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2021
  • On this episode, how to fight fire with fire in the change in climate.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But are they aligned with the true scope of climate change risks?
    Curt Spalding, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2022
  • For many, the fire was a harsh reminder of climate change.
    Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Aug. 2021
  • In the current climate, that does not look set to change.
    Isobel Thompson, The Hive, 23 June 2017
  • Graven and her colleagues build models of the world to study the climate.
    Carl Zimmer, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2020
  • The issue of climate change is featured for the first time in the report.
    Drew Kann, ajc, 14 Dec. 2021
  • No matter the climate—sun, snow, rain—you’ll get your use out of them.
    Grace Smith, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Ten million climate refugees could swell the trails of East Africa alone.
    Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 17 July 2019
  • That’s why, even in the midst of a crisis, climate action can’t take a back seat.
    Levi Tillemann, Wired, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Give it more sun in cool climates and a more shade in warm climates.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 9 May 2024
  • There’s no reason to prune roses to the ground in our mild climate.
    Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023
  • In their own ways, all of the works cited above are a response to this climate of change.
    refinery29.com, 3 July 2018
  • But climate change might not be wholly to blame for the fungus' spread.
    Dr. Adela Wu, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2021
  • For years, Seattleites have talked about the dangers of climate change.
    James Ross Gardne, The New Yorker, 30 June 2021
  • And as the climate warms, trees can also help slow down the manmade changes brought to the planet.
    Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Aug. 2024
  • That changing climate has pushed some of them to venture south in search of food.
    Fox News, 19 June 2019

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