How to Use hazmat in a Sentence

hazmat

noun

• One man walked through the area in a white hazmat suit.
  — Time, 22 Mar. 2020
• Some films include shots of people hooking up in yellow hazmat suits.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 12 Mar. 2020
• To ring the bell, workers donned hazmat suits and masks to avoid the large quantities of poisonous lead that was spread about from the fire.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 15 Apr. 2020
• The hospital allowed one of them to suit up in full protective gear, akin to a hazmat suit, and go into her room briefly.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 10 Apr. 2020
• Accustomed to pulling people from rubble as airstrikes pummel towns, the rescuers are now trying on hazmat suits.
  — CNN, 26 Mar. 2020
• Once in the observation room, a midwife in an aqua-blue hazmat suit came in to check on the baby by putting electrodes on my belly.
  — Ariane Chang, The New York Review of Books, 2 Apr. 2020
• India, with its shortage of N95 masks and protective hazmat suits, should take note.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 26 Mar. 2020
• Turkey dispatched masks, hazmat suits, goggles, and disinfectants to Italy and Spain.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2020
• Danielson said upon arrival, no body was found in the shed, but hazmat teams in Tyvek suits entered and found 13 bodies within the holding area.
  — Jennifer Jean Miller, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2020
• Investigators wearing white hazmat suits and powder blue booties found a handgun and drug paraphernalia in a bedroom.
  — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2024
• This month, due to a spike in coronavirus cases at Rikers Island, the city began hiring contract workers—who wear hazmat suits—to bury the dead.
  — National Geographic, 13 Apr. 2020
• Mandel, a notorious germaphobe, donned a full hazmat suit and gas mask to a recent taping of the competition reality series.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2020
• By late afternoon, about 100 workers in white hazmat suits, yellow boots and black gloves have been deployed to pick up samples of black-stained sand near the pier, as beachgoers play nearby.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 19 Apr. 2020
• That’s why distilleries are releasing barrel-proof expressions that qualify as hazmat whiskey, or whiskey that’s bottled above 140 proof.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2024
• The bomb squad and a hazmat team were also called to the scene.
  — Christian Martinez Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2022
• Men in white hazmat suits pour lime over the brown soil to seal the graves.
  — Sarah Sirgany, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
• Now, all that’s left is a gray hazmat zone filled with the sorrow of what has been lost.
  — Jacqueline Yoo, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2023
• Wrapped in a hazmat suit, she's led to the corpse of a middle-aged woman with a gnarly bite on her left leg.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2023
• Health workers in hazmat suits arrived at their door in the middle of the night to take them away.
  — Rebecca Kanthor / Shanghai, Time, 12 Apr. 2022
• What is a serve is the hazmat jumpsuit Marlo wears for the sprinter.
  — Chris Murphy, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2021
• On our way through the arrival hall, we were waylaid by men in hazmat suits.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 14 June 2022
• Woburn fire crews responded to the scene, along with state hazmat teams, Wark said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2021
• Despite the unknown, Jaynes put on a white hazmat suit, asked the family to leave the home and retrieved the body.
  — Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2021
• Two women in hazmat suits and face shields came out to my car, and one stuck a long swab up my nostril.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2020
• There are two hazmat vehicles at the scene cleaning up the oil.
  — Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Nov. 2021
• The transition ramp was shut down for hours while county hazmat crews cleaned up the spill.
  — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2021
• The staff sent nurses around with cleaning crews to calm those spooked by the sight of strange people dressed head-to-toe in hazmat suits.
  — al, 19 Mar. 2021
• In the United States, hazmat suits have remained a rare sight in daily life, even at the height of the pandemic.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 18 Oct. 2022
• Not through gloves, goggles, a mask, a hairnet, a hazmat suit and plastic sheets.
  — Lotte Bowser, refinery29.com, 13 Jan. 2022
• Before March, a cruise ship worker in a hazmat suit would’ve seemed straight out of a high-seas horror movie.
  — Davide Bertuccio, Travel, 25 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024