How to Use dioxide in a Sentence

dioxide

noun

• The metallic taste of the sulphur dioxide lingers and irritates the eyes and throat.
  — Stephanie Elam, CNN, 22 May 2018
• Burning it also emits several times more sulphur dioxide, which causes lung diseases and acid rain.
  — Sudarshan Varadhan, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2017
• These finalists will be given space near a power plant and pipes that will deliver some of the plant's carbon-dioxide-rich exhaust.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Apr. 2018
• The threat of toxic sulphur dioxide gas remains real, so people are being told to wear respirators.
  — David Begnaud, CBS News, 14 May 2018
• Sulfur dioxide specifically will contribute to volcanic smog, known as vog, which creates a visible haze.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 7 June 2023
• In just a few hours residents had been shaken by an earthquake, dusted with ash and for the first time since the start of the eruption smelled the rotten-egg stench of toxic sulfur-dioxide gas.
  — Author: Terray Sylvester, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2018
• Global warming, caused by the release of carbon-dioxide pollution into the atmosphere, will cause the seas to rise and the storms to intensify around the city.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2017
• That has since evolved into an active fissure, spewing lava 100 feet into the air, and emitting harmful levels of sulphur dioxide gas.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 4 May 2018
• Even if all carbon dioxide production was suddenly halted on the Earth, there's still enough in the atmosphere to weaken the hold ice has on the Arctic.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2017
• That gas will have to be flared, or oil drilling and production will need to decrease, a choice between increasing climate-warming carbon-dioxide emissions or decreasing profits.
  — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
• That’s where the nuclear fission reaction takes place, powered by fuel composed of uranium dioxide baked into ceramic pellets.
  — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 26 Apr. 2018
• Transportation accounts for one-third of the nation’s carbon-dioxide emissions and recently surpassed power plants as its largest contributor to global warming.
  — Conor Dougherty and Brad Plumer, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2018
• Garner perfected an air-filtration system on a mask designed by his wife, Glenna, that used charcoal filters which absorbed sulphur dioxide and ammonia.
  — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 20 Apr. 2018
• Chlorine dioxide will help get rid of the new virus from China.
  — Arijeta Lajka, The Denver Post, 29 Feb. 2020
• Carbon dioxide leaves no such residue and is, in fact, more efficient in pulling the oil out of the cannabis hemp plant.
  — Michael Wright | For Cbdfx, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 July 2022
• The fish are placed into a bath with carbon-dioxide in the water, which enables the staff to handle them.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
• Sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere is what could cool the planet (or at least a hemisphere).
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2022
• Carbon dioxide hangs around in the atmosphere for a long time.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• Carbon dioxide gas was pumped in to kill what remained.
  — NBC News, 26 Oct. 2020
• There’s that ‘somebody lit a match on fire’ sulphur dioxide smell.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
• With sand, the more carbonate there is to produce carbon-dioxide gas, the greater the acoustic shift.
  — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2019
• Carbon dioxide can stay in the air for 1,000 years or more, so year-to-year changes in emissions don’t register much.
  — NBC News, 8 June 2021
• The result is that the U.S. has cut its carbon-dioxide output year after year without the aid of a carbon tax.
  — David R. Henderson, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2018
• That hypothesis proved to be a bit of a stretch, though, as the clouds that fill Venus’ atmosphere are full of carbon-dioxide.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 Dec. 2021
• Carbon dioxide checks in classes full of students can show if enough fresh air is getting in.
  — Corbett Smith, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2020
• Carbon dioxide emissions are on track to rise in every country and region in the world this year compared to 2020.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2021
• For the three years straddling the 2015 Paris conference, carbon-dioxide emissions were more or less flat.
  — Rupert Darwall, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2018
• Carbon dioxide and methane do this too, but HFCs trap heat at rates thousands of times higher.
  — Eric Dean Wilson, Time, 30 June 2021
• Carbon dioxide does not dissipate or break down and stays put for hundreds of years.
  — Birnur Aral, Ph.d., Good Housekeeping, 27 May 2021
• Sulfur dioxide gas — which the EPA says can make breathing difficult and harm children who have asthma — is among the substances emitted by the facility.
  — Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 15 Sep 2024