How to Use methane in a Sentence

methane

noun

• So, in the far north of the world, the soils store a lot of carbon, and there's methane underground.
  — CBS News, 9 July 2023
• The methane forms rivers, lakes, and small seas on Titan’s surface.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2023
• More than three-quarters of that methane came from stoves that were turned off.
  — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 23 Jan. 2023
• But methane remains in the new law’s sights in other ways.
  — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 18 Aug. 2022
• The ice has a quarter-size hole, maintained by a stream of methane bubbles.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2023
• And methane emissions aren’t the only hazard that stem from the landfill.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
• Two new reports have bad news on methane emissions in the U.S. and worldwide.
  — Ben Geman, Axios, 1 Aug. 2024
• The more greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide and methane, the warmer our world gets.
  — Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 13 Mar. 2023
• That also means that the system does not produce as much methane.
  — The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
• The outer belt is around twice the size of the Kuiper Belt, which is a ring of icy objects, mostly frozen methane and ammonia, around the Sun.
  — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 8 May 2023
• The production of methane is a normal part of the digestive process that cannot (nor should it) be stopped.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• With the last option, methane is produced that can be captured and burned as a power source.
  — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
• In addition to 27 oil blocks, the rights to extract methane gas from three blocks in Lake Kivu will be up for auction.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 28 July 2022
• Some might say methane emissions, which, by a factor of 28, are more potent than CO2.
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• Undersea blasts that damaged the Nord Stream I and 2 pipelines this week have led to huge methane leaks.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2022
• The city’s vast methane gas field extended to the spot near downtown chosen for a big school complex.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• The point of the law is to remove organic waste from our landfills to reduce methane emissions and slow the need for new places to dump our waste.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2023
• Over billions of years this has formed a layer of methane ice many kilometers thick in places.
  — Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
• Left unplugged, many wells leak climate-warming methane, brine and toxins that were used in the drilling process.
  — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2023
• Undersea blasts that damaged the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines last week have led to huge methane leaks.
  — Jill Lawless, ajc, 3 Oct. 2022
• Most plastics are derived from crude oil, methane gas, or coal.
  — By Aryn Baker/lautoka, Fiji , TIME, 3 July 2024
• The methane and liquid oxygen will first flow into the smaller tanks on the ship, then into the larger tanks on the booster.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 4 June 2024
• Lebel and his team found that methane emissions from gas stoves in U.S. homes could have as much impact on the climate as half a million cars.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2023
• And the reservoirs behind them burp out large amounts of methane, a powerful heat-trapping gas.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• Wells and pipelines in the Permian Basin, a huge oilfield near the rocket site, are thought to give off some 2.7 million tons of methane a year.
  — Zachary Mider, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
• It was fueled by a huge build up of methane from all those space babies’ diapers.
  — Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
• That’s not to mention the issue of land subsidence or the buildup of enough methane gas to spur earthquakes and explosions.
  — Nabih Bulosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2022
• But methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas in the short term, compared with carbon dioxide.
  — Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
• Saturn’s moon Titan has lakes of liquid methane and ethane that are made of organic molecules, as are its hydrocarbon sand dunes.
  — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 13 Nov. 2024
• The agency only recently finalized a fee paid by energy companies that spew excess methane gas.
  — Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024