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.
• Ground crews remained on the scene through the early afternoon to increase containment and mop up.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2022
• Firefighters will work on improving containment efforts made to the north and east Wednesday.
  — The Arizona Republic, 27 Apr. 2022
• Firefighters will also concentrate efforts on the northwestern edge of the fire to ensure containment lines hold.
  — Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 5 May 2022
• Conditions become more favorable over the past few days for firefighters in their containment efforts, after last week’s dire fire weather.
  — Monica Garrett, CNN, 27 Apr. 2022
• Beijing’s swift and strict containment drive has so far allowed the city of 21 million people to stop short of a full-scale lockdown like the one that immobilized Shanghai.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The higher the containment number, the more control the firefighters have over the fire.
  — Pedram Javaheri and Allison Chinchar, CNN, 9 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• Last July, a crane hoisted the upper half of a steel containment shell into place.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Jan. 2023
• The Jacob City Fire has spread to almost six square miles with zero containment.
  — CBS News, 11 July 2022
• In any case, containment with the current tools isn’t a guarantee.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2022
• There was no containment on those fire as of Wednesday morning.
  — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• And yet for all our sakes, containment must be possible.
  — Mustafa Suleyman, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2023
• The Hog fire — the newest of the blazes, igniting Tuesday — hit 174 acres, without any containment.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024
• The Hermits Peak Fire ignited April 6 after a prescribed burn grew out of the containment area due to winds..
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 12 May 2022
• Siphon Fire near Apache Junction reaches 58% containment.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 19 Sep. 2024
• And, yes, scientists have seriously been researching harvesting Marbled Crayfish as a sustainable food source for when those containment efforts inevitably fail.
  — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024