How to Use contamination in a Sentence

contamination

noun

• Greater contamination is more likely to make people sick.
  — Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2022
• The leading cause of the rise, says WHO, is water contamination.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 26 Oct. 2022
• To mitigate risk of contamination, glove-up, flip up the flange, and scrub off the slime with grease-cutting dish soap or other cleaning solution.
  — Susannah Herrada, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022
• First and foremost, there is no bacterial contamination involved.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 15 Oct. 2022
• Energoatom warned that destruction of containers stored there could lead to radiation contamination over hundreds of square miles.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2022
• Concerns about lead contamination have led to staff shortages at a public shooting range, HawaiiNewsNow reports.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
• Ganymede’s thick shell means the Juice team doesn’t have to worry as much about contamination.
  — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 5 Apr. 2023
• But the longer removal takes, the farther the contamination can spread.
  — Andrew J. Whelton, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2023
• The same goes for sliced, shredded or crumbled cheeses, the contamination of which can be hard to discern.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
• The result of this is a very general idea, a polygon, of where the contamination is.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2024
• The charges allege the food contamination took place between April 1 and 23.
  — Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2024
• The contamination in Marinette and Peshtigo stems from the Tyco fire training site, where fires were set outdoors and then doused with foam.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2023
• The type of contamination that’s present is not harmful to people in vehicles because they’re raised off the ground, the water board said at the time.
  — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 2 May 2024
• The bill would also leave contamination for the state to clean up, which would still end up costing taxpayers.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 1 May 2023
• For the second time in a month, a Colorado library has closed its doors to clean up methamphetamine contamination.
  — CBS News, 17 Jan. 2023
• The Amazon Basin is known as a hot spot for mercury contamination.
  — Jill Langlois, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
• The close contact with the eggs allows the adults to coat them with the right compounds to keep them moist and safe from bacterial and fungal contamination.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Dec. 2023
• There are also fears about contamination of the soil with white phosphorus and what that could mean for farming.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
• In March, the city of Idaho Springs had a mystery contamination leaking into their wastewater that turned the water a light shade of pink.
  — CBS News, 10 Nov. 2023
• Although the levels varied, the contamination was across the state.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Apr. 2024
• The fire was contained and there were no reports of injury or contamination.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2023
• If a severe storm rolls in, bringing surging seas and heavy rain, the dormant contamination could be brought back to the surface, drowning the area in a toxic stew.
  — Eli Ramos, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
• In public talks, Kennedy often spoke about the dangers of mercury contamination in fish, which is a by-product of coal plants.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
• But the East Palestine resident who saw the fire from the accident from her house wants to see long-term testing for contamination.
  — Dino Grandoni and Joyce Koh, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2023
• The toxic chemical is also known as the source of the contamination problem in Hinkley, Calif.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2024
• The explosion and fire at the plant had an initial death toll of more than 30 and spread radioactive contamination across Europe.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2022
• That both helps preserve any DNA inside and protect it from contamination as the body decays.
  — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 4 May 2023
• As the bodies pile up in the wilds of northern Quebec, the contamination threatens to reach hydroelectric dams.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
• Two people died and 26 were sickened in connection to a queso fresco and cotija cheese contamination in February.
  — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
• The city of Long Beach issued a public notice late Wednesday night, advising residents living in neighborhoods located in the western and northern areas to boil their water before drinking it due to possible contamination from a water main break.
  — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024