How to Use pollute in a Sentence

pollute

verb

• Car exhaust pollutes the air.
• Miles of beaches were polluted by the oil spill.
• The billowing haze and ash will cloud and pollute the state for weeks if not months.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 15 Sep. 2020
• The world needs a plan to adapt The risks of aged, polluting cars sent abroad will not be borne by the Global South alone.
  — David Zipper, Vox, 3 Sep. 2024
• The emissions rain down as an oily residue, polluting homes and farms.
  — Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
• Some fans think that mark is like a virus, polluting Bran from the inside out.
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 26 Apr. 2019
• Car engines have advanced over the years to pollute less.
  — CBS News, 10 Dec. 2021
• This could mean airlines will get a free pass to pollute until 2024.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 4 June 2021
• That means plastic straws get tossed in the garbage, ending up in landfills and polluting the ocean.
  — Christina Caron, New York Times, 9 July 2018
• But this is the first time Samara is being polluted with it on her walk home.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2024
• Deep-fryer oil should not be poured on the ground or down a storm drain, which could pollute waterways and clog the storm pipe.
  — Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 26 Nov. 2020
• There is a new push for electric school buses, which would pollute less.
  — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
• These plants feed on nutrients that pollute and cloud the waters.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 11 July 2018
• The crew complied—but Matveev told the officials that his ship had an oil leak and might pollute their waters.
  — Tristram Korten, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Aug. 2020
• What is the potential for neighbors to pollute the water?
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2025
• Nicholas warned this disparity would see those that pollute the least suffer the most.
  — NBC News, 9 Aug. 2021
• Still, perhaps the best way to tackle the issue isn’t policing the sale but polluting the appeal.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2024
• Indigenous groups want to know if that means the river can now sue people who pollute it.
  — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 11 Dec. 2020
• Wildfires are back, and with them is the risk of smoke clouding the metro Detroit sky, polluting the air quality.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 31 May 2024
• But because the Great Salt Lake is drying up, toxins threaten to pollute the city’s air.
  — Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• The idea was to ensure that the EPA could protect those new bodies from being polluted.
  — Christopher Harress | [e-mail], al, 17 Sep. 2019
• This is our drinking water that is being polluted, and for years no one seemed to care.
  — David North, Chicago Reader, 10 July 2018
• But not all automakers are on board with a plan to pollute the planet for as long as possible.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 June 2022
• Thames21 is a group that organizes clean-ups along the foreshore of the River Thames, in the UK, and educates people to not pollute it.
  — Mark Tutton and Ed Scott-Clarke, CNN, 24 June 2019
• In the end, the biggest enemy of island and coral ecosystems isn’t rats, but humans—we’re the ones that transplant the things, and pollute the oceans, and warm the atmosphere.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 11 July 2018
• The decade-old program, which allows large emitters to buy allowances from the state to pollute and trade them with other companies, is one of the largest in the world.
  — Sophie Austin, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2023
• Thus, old, polluting coal plants that likely would have closed without the ACE rule may now remain open for longer.
  — Emily Atkin, The New Republic, 20 June 2019
• Margo’s beloved grandfather and run by her uncle polluting both the water and the air.
  — Jane Smiley, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• But the ad tech industry is a toxic spill that has polluted the entire web and app business.
  — NBC News, 4 June 2019
• Our beaches are full of these pieces of plastic that end up choking our marine life and polluting our waterways.
  — Steve Padilla, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025