How to Use nonrenewable in a Sentence

nonrenewable

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• Their sizes range from nine judges to 27, and most judges serve nonrenewable eight-year terms.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2022
• Now in the last year of his nonrenewable five-year term, the South Korean leader appears to have had a change of heart.
  — Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2021
• Meanwhile, in New York City, the center’s gallery will close May 31 when its one-year, nonrenewable lease expires.
  — Tamarra Kemsley, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 May 2022
• Your time is the only nonrenewable resource on the planet.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2021
• The 5-year grants are nonrenewable and are seen as startup funds to help institutions launch their efforts.
  — Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 1 Nov. 2019
• Qatar has become one of richest countries in the world thanks to large deposits of oil and natural gas, resources the government knows are nonrenewable.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• This nonrenewable element is found deep within the Earth’s crust and is in short supply, according to NBC reports.
  — Omer Awan, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• To make up the shortfall, Jordan increasingly turned to nonrenewable water sources such as aquifers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
• So today our jeans are produced with the help of the cheapest and dirtiest nonrenewable energy sources, mainly coal.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 5 May 2021
• Businesses have moved away from polystyrene, which is made from nonrenewable petroleum, in recent years, but schools have been slower to do so.
  — Philly.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• Last month, House Democrats introduced a bill that proposes a new Supreme Court appointment every two years, for a nonrenewable eighteen-year term.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2020
• The change might seem unremarkable: The consumption of nonrenewable resources is central to the discussion about how to respond to climate change, after all.
  — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2021
• Much of the country’s energy comes from nonrenewable resources that contribute to climate change.
  — WIRED, 30 Sep. 2022
• As a result, the Healthy Living Home Guide is kind of a twofer, offering quick consumer advice that can both improve indoor air quality and help save nonrenewable resources outside the home.
  — Erin Blakemore, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2017
• The recommendations include initiatives that would reduce the amount of food waste and nonrenewable energy from the school system.
  — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
• Prices for natural gas — a nonrenewable fossil fuel that remains the most common way to heat homes in America — are soaring just as the Northern Hemisphere slides into fall and winter.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 3 Oct. 2021
• Holding justices to a single, nonrenewable term would lower the stakes of any individual Supreme Court nomination as well as make the timing of fights more predictable.
  — Ezra Klein, Vox, 26 Dec. 2018
• Sadly, one hoped-for benefit of an 18-year nonrenewable Supreme Court term might not materialize in practice.
  — John Fund, National Review, 24 Nov. 2019
• Most nitrogen is made from fossil fuels, and many factories have had to stop production as the pandemic and climate policies have raised the price of nonrenewable energy.
  — Bjorn Lomborg, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• But helium — a nonrenewable element found deep within the Earth’s crust — is running low, leaving hospitals wondering how to plan for a future with a much scarcer supply.
  — Caroline Hopkins, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2022
• However, many of these resources are finite or nonrenewable, and the extraction of such materials can be harmful to the environment.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• For Holly, the chapter official in Red Mesa, the smaller solar plant that will see construction this summer in her chapter is a good first step for the region long dependent on nonrenewable resource extraction.
  — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Apr. 2021
• Making your house more energy-efficient and less reliant on nonrenewable energy sources should cost less after this bill takes effect.
  — Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022
• To lower the stakes of confirmation battles, Faris favors eliminating lifetime tenure for judges and adopting the nonpartisan group Fix The Court’s plan of nonrenewable 18-year term limits.
  — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 2 July 2018
• Under the Obama administration, these plans were limited to three-month nonrenewable terms.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• Every step of plastic use, from production to disposal, requires large amounts of nonrenewable energy.
  — Austen Erblat, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• However, Earth only offers up a finite amount of fossil fuels and nonrenewable energy sources.
  — Gideon Kimbrell, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
• Cromwell and others say the costs of solar energy already have dropped so dramatically over the last decade that the industry can survive, especially because electric rates from nonrenewable sources continue to rise.
  — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 24 Jan. 2018
• What's more, the manufacturing process of most chemical fertilizers depends on nonrenewable resources, such as coal and natural gas.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 10 Mar. 2017
• Any nonrenewable energy use will be offset with afforestation.
  — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024