How to Use hydrocarbon in a Sentence

hydrocarbon

noun

• The gems form in the hydrocarbon-rich oceans of slush that swath the gas giants' solid cores.
  — Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• This method utilizes solvents like ethanol or hydrocarbons to dissolve the cannabinoids present in the hemp plant.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2023
• But on Titan, the rivers and lakes are full of sloshing liquid hydrocarbons.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2019
• Home to the largest hydrocarbon reserves in Europe, the country is the world’s third largest exporter of natural gas, and one of the top exporters of crude oil.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 10 Sep. 2021
• If all goes well, a massive fireball of hydrocarbons will ignite in the New Mexico desert some time in the next year.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2018
• An image of a well site is seen through the kind of camera used by Ms. Ostroff; the device can spot hydrocarbon emissions.
  — WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
• For the block copolymer, the second block was a hydrocarbon with most of the hydrogens swapped out for fluorine atoms.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 July 2022
• Since the discovery of hydrocarbon deposits beneath the seabed a few years ago, both countries have claimed the right to exploit the resources.
  — Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2020
• The red streaks in the composite image are caused by glowing, hydrocarbon-rich dust.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• It's been a banner week for hydrocarbons made from waste gases.
  — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2018
• Titan’s rivers, lakes and seas—like Kraken Mare—are filled with hydrocarbons.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2020
• But there are no hydrocarbons in the granite below us, only heat.
  — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 19 July 2023
• Best of all is that none of this has to come at the expense of oil and gas companies’ bread and butter: to extract and burn as many hydrocarbons as possible.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2023
• In the ’70s, a lot of the smog problem in L.A. was cleaned up by putting catalytic converters on cars and cutting down on hydrocarbon emissions.
  — David Marchese, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2022
• For one thing, COP events have in the past been hosted by hydrocarbon producing countries.
  — Kristen Lynch, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
• That's not to say the hydrocarbon-consuming version of the MC20 will be short on innovation, though.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 9 Sep. 2020
• The province is hydrocarbon country, dotted with tens of thousands of wells.
  — William Ralston, Wired, 16 Dec. 2021
• Unlike for the rest of the world, the war is an unexpected boost to public finances for the UAE and its hydrocarbon-dependent neighbors.
  — Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2022
• But the idea that a carbon tax is a painless, efficient way to reduce hydrocarbons fails for three reasons.
  — Mark P. Mills, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2019
• Like Enceladus, Titan is a chilly place, and so those liquids are hydrocarbons rather than water.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• As the age of the hydrocarbon enters its final era, the action increasingly moves to Asia and plastics take center stage.
  — Andres Guerra Luz, Bloomberg.com, 28 Aug. 2020
• To get through an orbital test phase beginning soon and on to the moon and Mars in coming years, Musk has been searching for supplies of the hydrocarbon, which is found in natural gas.
  — Eric Killelea, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Dec. 2021
• Others cautioned that Premier’s estimate of the size of the discovery refers only to oil-in-place, not the amount of hydrocarbons that could be recovered from the field.
  — Robbie Whelan, WSJ, 12 July 2017
• One of the great mysteries of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the temporary smoothness of its hydrocarbon lakes in places, a state that sometimes last for days or weeks.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
• The share sale is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s plan to set up the world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund and reduce the economy’s reliance on hydrocarbons.
  — Bloomberg.com, 7 Jan. 2018
• The activists have succeeded in redirecting investment flows away from the coal and oil-sands industries, with crude oil the next hydrocarbon in the crosshairs.
  — Paul H. Tice, WSJ, 29 May 2018
• High hydrocarbon levels in the sludge have raised fire hazard concerns, and forced the city’s contractor to process it more slowly — without the use of an air dryer — for more than six months.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 13 Apr. 2022
• Reliance on long-dead trees for hydrocarbons doesn't stop at gasoline, after all.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2018
• And after tribal officials raised concerns about hydrocarbon plumes under the one school in town, the state committed to building a school on a different plot of land.
  — Gabe Stern, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024
• By then, China was the world’s largest importer of hydrocarbons, providing Russia with a new, enormous, and still expanding market.
  — Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024