How to Use contaminant in a Sentence

contaminant

noun

• If a contaminant is found in one pot, the entire batch is discarded.
  — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2019
• Plastic breaks down into tiny pieces that can absorb contaminants such as pesticides.
  — Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2019
• And concern is growing that contaminants in counterfeit or street vapes could be behind the illnesses.
  — NBC News, 3 Sep. 2019
• Treatment plants remove contaminants from groundwater to keep them out of domestic wells.
  — oregonlive.com, 18 Aug. 2019
• Workers will remove contaminants and non-metal objects from the ship, according to marineinsight.com.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2024
• This is like checking a drug for contaminants without testing the effects of its active ingredients.
  — Wired Opinion, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2019
• Lungs—and subsequently the rest of the body—are protected from these contaminants by a thin layer of lipids that coat the lungs and some very important cells called macrophages.
  — Wired, 4 Sep. 2019
• Numerous other contaminants which could potentially be hazardous to public health were not able to be included in the study.
  — Fox News, 20 Sep. 2019
• Customers only receive medicine that is free of contaminants and meets federal standards for dose and dissolution.
  — Wired, 10 Sep. 2019
• The moves are the latest in a series of actions aimed at getting drugs tainted with potentially deadly contaminants off pharmacy shelves.
  — Anna Edneybloomberg, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2019
• Readings for contaminants like uranium and americium were also found to be well below the threshold for health concerns, the report concluded.
  — John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• The contaminants travel through the stalk of the plant into the leaves and flowers.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2023
• The agency ordered the cities to test the parks for contaminants that could pose a risk to public health and wildlife.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
• On the first night, temperatures in the teens and very light winds would have kept airborne contaminants close to the ground over the town.
  — Jill Neimark, STAT, 21 Feb. 2023
• The cap will be installed at the site to prevent the contaminants from spreading.
  — Michael Slaten, Orange County Register, 9 Oct. 2024
• Even loose dirt left on one’s boots from a trip to a farm can be a source of contaminants to the local flora and fauna.
  — Erica Kasper, WIRED, 15 July 2023
• The city is using a computer model to track the movement of the plume of contaminant through the river.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
• All the contaminants remain on the other side of the cell, where they can be collected and disposed of.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 June 2023
• Wastewater plants are not equipped to deal with this kind of contaminant, according to the study.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 24 July 2023
• In lab tests, Semprini found that the beads removed more than 99% of the contaminants.
  — oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2020
• In the clean rooms, magnets are finished with the help of robots, such as this blue one in the foreground, to remove contaminants.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 July 2023
• Even in the trace amounts found in food, these contaminants can alter the developing brain and erode a child's IQ.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2019
• And while thousands of tons of contaminants have since been removed, it is still being cleaned up.
  — Tatiana Schlossberg, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2019
• The system pumps water through the membrane, whose tiny pores allow the water to pass through, but trap the PFAS and other contaminants.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2023
• So the team also wanted to see whether the reaction would still work if there were contaminants.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2024
• The smoke pouring from the stacks, and clouds of contaminants were both going into Norwood and settling there back into the 1940s.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2024
• Each bottle seals tight and is designed to keep the product fresh, potent, and contaminant-free.
  — Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2023
• It is believed that much of the contaminant already made its way through the Wixom treatment plant by the time the release was discovered.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2022
• And the industry’s contaminants in the Bay Area have rendered a number of sites toxic.
  — Rakesh Kumar, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2023
• The lawsuit claims the companies knew about the contaminants in the fertilizer and failed to provide adequate warning to their customers.
  — Alejandra Martinez, Austin American-Statesman, 9 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Jan 2025