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.
• Weak social infrastructures can derail containment and push goals out of reach.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2022
• These containment buildings are not designed or built for deliberate shelling.
  — Najmedin Meshkati, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2022
• There are the usual metaphors around contagion, containment and survival, along with plenty of stomach-turning scenes.
  — NBC News, 16 Feb. 2022
• Although damage to the containment shells around the reactors would clearly be of concern, those structures are built to withstand even plane crashes.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2022
• The closure will allow the contractor to install a work platform and containment system under the western river span.
  — oregonlive, 25 Feb. 2022
• Uganda reopened for business last month after two years of severe containment measures which had seen schools and trading activities shut down.
  — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 22 Feb. 2022
• More hidden, and more costly to Ukraine, was the process of radiological containment.
  — Adriana Petryna, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2022
• This change turns the attention of public policy toward prevention and containment.
  — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 18 Feb. 2022
• Failure to do so can result in anything from a drop in energy (which leads to the failure of any fusion) to seeing the plasma spill out of containment (and scorch the walls of the container).
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2022
• Temperatures dropped below freezing overnight, winds calmed and firefighters made good progress on containment, which had reached 40% by Friday night.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• Or that Sino–American economic interdependence means that containment needs to be adapted to our times.
  — Daniel J. Samet, National Review, 27 Feb. 2022
• When considering a plant’s safety risks, the critical thing to pay attention to is a reactor’s containment vessel, which contains the nuclear fuel.
  — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 25 Feb. 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
• 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
• 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
• One of these fires is ongoing and could take days to reach 100% containment.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 1 Apr. 2022
• The filings reveal that the final cost of the second Loki season was in line with the budget and this wasn't just thanks to cost containment.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
• The flames had escaped one of the firefighters’ containment lines, and more than sixty-five households in the village of Greenwood Lake were evacuated.
  — M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024