How to Use ecological in a Sentence

ecological

adjective

• And so, as with many of our ecological crises, time is running out.
  — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
• The ambition now is to recruit otters to help restore the ecological health of a much wider swath of the West Coast.
  — Dino Grandoni and Melina Mara, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
• But the efforts of Lindsey and her volunteers lie at the heart of Maui's ecological health.
  — John Wogan, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2024
• But the small creature plays a crucial ecological role in Texas.
  — Dallas News, 2 May 2022
• The ecological area, which extends from Shroud Cay in the north to Bells Cay in the south, protects mangroves and amazing marine species.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2024
• The ecological devastation that happened in the 1930s across the Great Plains were man-made and provoked.
  — Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• The tribes, who view wolves as a brother and place a high value on the species' ecological role, choose to use their quota to try to protect rather than kill the animals.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2021
• Instead, carmakers need to strike a balance—not just to serve the tastes of car owners but for a host of health and ecological reasons.
  — Paul Amitai, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2024
• The behavior has driven the sharks away from some parts of the coast around Cape Town in what some experts think is a worrying ecological shift.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
• Spiders play a key role in the ecosystem, and losing them could cause untold ecological shifts.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2025
• The differences in the amount stem from the differences in their ecological niches.
  — Big Think, 20 June 2024
• How Modesto will combat the ecological impact of the caves was not specifically answered by the city.
  — Trevor Morgan, Sacramento Bee, 2 Feb. 2024
• The ecological impacts of dropping tons of biomass to the ocean bottom are currently unclear as well.
  — Saima May Sidik, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
• The team writes that biomass can serve as an indicator of the abundance and ecological footprint of wild mammals on a global scale.
  — Jan Dönges, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2023
• The middle of the Cretaceous was also a time of ecological upheaval.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2023
• But this is just the beginning of the ecological repair of Lake Elizabeth.
  — Kyle Martin, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2024
• The fossil records also line up with ecological changes.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
• But one of the problems is that that causes some ecological imbalances because there are so many ravens.
  — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 June 2023
• The book begins in 2024, in the midst of ecological collapse in California.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2025
• The long-term ecological disaster will unfold over decades to come.
  — Susanne Wengle, Fortune, 8 July 2023
• Even in the midst of widespread ecological catastrophe, certain animals found a way to beat the odds and survive.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
• In this way, Hawaii would position itself as a shining example of ecological restoration for the rest of the world.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
• There are also ecological reasons to avoid tossing your Levi’s in the washer.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2023
• Foresters are now racing to restore the land with the hope that ghost forests can cut off an ecological ripple that affects hundreds of thousands of people.
  — Ginger Zee, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2023
• The city hopes to expand the use of the animals as an ecological and cost-effective option to prevent flooding.
  — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2023
• But as the world’s plastic consumption has skyrocketed, so has the amount of plastic waste, and the ecological damage that goes along with it.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2023
• What stood out most for Haskin about the project was the tenacity of the people involved devising a solution to the lakes’ ecological collapse.
  — Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 17 Jan. 2025
• Policy change alone has yet to make any measurable difference for the lake, which teetered over the brink of ecological collapse at this time last year.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
• The pursuit of producing what is considered the best cement in the world often overshadows the ecological cost.
  — Silvia Benedetti, ARTnews.com, 27 Feb. 2025
• Yet breaking down wood—one of the toughest organic materials—is easier said than done, and scientists still have much to learn about the vital ecological process.
  — Katarina Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 17 Mar 2025