How to Use hazmat in a Sentence

hazmat

noun
  • The bomb squad and a hazmat team were also called to the scene.
    Christian Martinez Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2022
  • One man walked through the area in a white hazmat suit.
    Time, 22 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • 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 transition ramp was shut down for hours while county hazmat crews cleaned up the spill.
    Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2021
  • Like wearing a hazmat suit to the office, your last sentence is overkill.
    Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • Firefighters wore hazmat suits to get the two out of the tanker, firefighters said.
    Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 21 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • The road was closed for several days amid a weeklong hazmat cleanup.
    Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2023
  • Several men in hazmat suits then passed the bodies to a small crowd of men wearing masks.
    NBC News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The hazmat team determined that the source of the gas was likely clothing dryers, Evans said.
    Dana Branham, Dallas News, 2 Feb. 2020
  • Several men in hazmat suits then passed the bodies to a small crowd of men wearing face masks.
    Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Some quantity of the powder spilled in the accident and a hazmat crew was at the scene to remove it from the roadway.
    Amy Lavalley, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Here’s hoping Bloom has a hazmat suit to protect him in all these dumpster dives.
    Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2023
  • See the man in his Army uniform, see the man in his lab coat, see the man in his worker’s coveralls, his leather apron, his hazmat suit.
    Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 20 July 2023
  • The episode opens 10 months ago on the site of a terrible plane crash where people in hazmat suits are milling about, assessing the state of things.
    Jodi Walker, EW.com, 25 Apr. 2020
  • The Ekstra Bladet newspaper ran photos of a man in a white hazmat suit being taken away by police on a train platform at the central station.
    Jan M. Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2024
  • 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

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