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
• 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
• The best way to honor your carbon dioxide-loving friend?
  — Maria Carter, Country Living, 21 Feb. 2017
• 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
• Carbon dioxide dissolves in seawater and makes the ocean more acidic, which poses a threat to coral and other sea life.
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2021
• Carbon dioxide causes pain; the headache is sharp and profound, and the ragged panting feels like the body is struggling to catch up after a panicky sprint.
  — Rachel Lance, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
• They were inspired by observations of dark spots in the carbon-dioxide ice caps at the Martian poles, Wordsworth said.
  — Mike Wall, Scientific American, 15 July 2019
• Now that forest is on fire, and the offsets have turned into carbon-dioxide emissions.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 28 July 2021
• Carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels is the main driver of climate change.
  — New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
• But the carbon-dioxide market does not work like that, explains Adam Collins of Liberum, another bank.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• And that means more smoke, and longer exposure to gasses like carbon monoxide and dioxide, benzene, formaldehyde, and ozone.
  — Wired, 28 July 2022
• Sulfur dioxide is a pungent gas that reacts with oxygen and water to form vog.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 1 Dec. 2022
• Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere haven’t been this high in 2 million years.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• Far from slowing down, the Earth's carbon dioxide crisis appears to be speeding up.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2017
• Sulfur dioxide, a reactive gas found in many marine fuels, is also released when those fuels are burned.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024
• Nitrogen dioxide is released into the atmosphere when cars, trucks, buses, power plants and off-road equipment burn fuel.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024