How to Use containment in a Sentence

containment

noun

• The government needs to adopt a containment strategy.
• The company's hazardous waste containment plan is being reviewed.
• The fire had jumped its containment lines; the crew drove back to camp with a wall of flames flanking the truck.
  — Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 13 July 2022
• Crews were working to build a containment lines around the burn area.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2023
• As of now, containment and acreage on both fires remain the same.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
• Edge containment was part of the problem and Nix was also hard to bring down in the open field.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2022
• The stoma was covered by a containment device for the urine, known as a pouch.
  — Colleen Murphy, Health.com, 29 Nov. 2021
• Edgar spent three days and two nights on the fire line, long enough for the containment effort to succeed.
  — Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• The virus’s prevalence in the wild presents new challenges for its containment.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2023
• Fire crews were working to build containment lines around the burn area.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2022
• The fire's containment dropped to 20% Wednesday as its size increased by more than 12 square miles in the Foresthill area.
  — Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
• As the salt dissolves, the resulting brine comes to the surface and is stored in large containment ponds.
  — Henry Fountain Nina Riggio, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• All were moved to the shade — away from the commercial fireworks — and the containment vessel was called in.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2022
• The plans come three months into the H5N1 dairy outbreak, which is very far from the initial hopes of containment.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 2 July 2024
• Either increase the cup size, or look to a wider wire shape for greater containment.
  — Charlotte Owen, Vogue, 1 July 2022
• There is no update on the containment progress of the fire and its cause has not yet been determined.
  — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacramento Bee, 27 Feb. 2025
• The higher the containment number, the more control the firefighters have over the fire.
  — Pedram Javaheri and Allison Chinchar, CNN, 9 June 2022
• As of Thursday night, containment of the fire had jumped to 75%, according to Cal Fire.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
• Crews made progress on the blaze over the last several days, and containment has climbed to 25% — up from 21% Monday.
  — Lila Seidman, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2021
• In space, there’s no bounce, but that also means there’s no containment.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2022
• And while there have been some improvements in containment, the risk of flare-ups remains.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
• One of these fires is ongoing and could take days to reach 100% containment.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 1 Apr. 2022
• If there is a new cold war, then the West may also be entering a new era of containment.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2025
• The risk grows when proper containment measures are not in place.
  — NBC news, 8 Dec. 2021
• In this case, the policy has to be purchased within 60 days of containment of the wildfire.
  — Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2022
• The right strategy in Ukraine is a patient and steady pursuit of containment.
  — Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 28 Nov. 2023
• Flames raced from treetop to treetop and containment lines in parts of the blaze were threatened Tuesday, Cal Fire said.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2021
• Currently, there is no data on the containment status of the fire and the cause has yet to be determined.
  — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacramento Bee, 23 Mar. 2025
• The business will have two levels of containment in case of a spill, according to a city staff report.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2022
• The gross profit margin improved due to a more profitable product mix and cost containment measures.
  — Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2025