How to Use pesticide in a Sentence

pesticide

noun

• With pesticides no longer on hand, the suicide rate dropped.
  — Angela Wang, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2023
• Yellow pesticide signs peek out of front lawns, warning dogs to keep off the grass.
  — Amelia Nierenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
• Benzene in the shampoo lead in the water; pesticide in fruit.
  — Rae Armantrout, The New Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
• Miguel and Rufino Garcia Rivera, 28 and 36, collapsed on the floor of a desert greenhouse not far away that reeked of diesel and pesticide fumes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
• Why the spread of organic farms may prompt growers to use more pesticide, not less.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• The team needed to make sure the ABA receptor could sense the pesticide but still be able to perform its usual job.
  — WIRED, 30 Oct. 2023
• Also, pesticides may pass into breast milk, the CDC says.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 22 Mar. 2024
• To save them, the city is committing to more gardens and fewer pesticides.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
• According to the Atlas of Pesticides, Brazil is the largest consumer and importer of pesticides in the world.
  — Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Then there are the P’s: pesticides, pollution, poop, pee and pretty much anything that may be in the great outdoors.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• When that happens, the pesticide is no longer detectable, only the byproducts.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2023
• There are different aspects that can be fought for, like the effects of pesticides.
  — Kathleen Hou, ELLE, 7 Aug. 2023
• Use this natural pesticide on both your indoor plants and in your yard.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 May 2023
• Faraji said the droplets of pesticide his crews spray are smaller than the width of a human hair, using less than an ounce of liquid for an area the size of a football field.
  — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Nov. 2022
• In open session, the council discussed pesticides and chemicals used in city parks and streets.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2023
• Parr says instead of pesticides and herbicides, let birds do their job to eat insects and grass seed in your garden.
  — Amy Chillag, CNN, 3 Sep. 2023
• San Diego beekeepers are faced with the threat of losing colonies every year due to pesticides, habitat loss and disease.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2023
• Then, officials emailed back and forth to finalize authorization for a plane to fly over the prison and spray pesticide.
  — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Dec. 2022
• No coffee jitters, no tannins to turn it bitter, and no yucky pesticides.
  — Treehugger Editors, Treehugger, 29 June 2023
• In 1984, a cloud of toxic gas escaped from an American pesticide plant in the central Indian city of Bhopal.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Dec. 2023
• Avoid pesticides and outdoor lighting, mow the grass on a high setting and less frequently, and provide moisture.
  — Monica Cardoza, Washington Post, 15 May 2023
• PAHs are found in oil, gas, plastics and pesticides, and are created when these products combust, the department said.
  — Raja Razek, CNN, 13 Aug. 2023
• For decades, arsenic was widely used as a pesticide — leaving the carcinogen behind in soil and water.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2023
• The chemicals can be found in everyday products, such as gasoline, paints and pesticides, but in breathing machines, the fumes can be inhaled for hours at a stretch.
  — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2023
• Thousands of PFASs have been used in hundreds of products ranging from cookware to clothing and from firefighting foam to pesticides.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2023
• Finally, whole shipments get dusted with fungicides or pesticides to make it all the way around the world without getting eaten by moths.
  — WIRED, 11 Nov. 2023
• Homeowners have the option of using a systemic pesticide to keep the insects at bay, but once the beetles arrive, pesticides won’t kill them, Shaw said.
  — oregonlive, 29 July 2023
• The researchers looked at data collected from groups of people with exposures to pesticides and others who were not.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2023
• Poison Free Malibu, a wildlife-protection activist group, was pleased by the passage of Assembly Bill 1322 but said there is still work to be done on other pesticides.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2023
• The animals can eat up to two-thirds of their body weight in insects each night, which helps keep crop pests in check and saves farmers up to two pesticide applications per year, per the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024