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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Margo’s beloved grandfather and run by her uncle polluting both the water and the air.
  — Jane Smiley, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• In reality, the cars polluted as much as long-haul trucks.
  — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• Over time, fewer allowances are made available with the goal of spurring companies to pollute less.
  — Kathleen Ronayne, ajc, 24 Feb. 2022
• The chemical also polluted the food web and destroyed the eggs of Bald Eagles.
  — The Editors, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• Sewage pollutes fish streams The sound of water is everywhere in the small towns of McDowell County, founded in 1858.
  — Sara Sidner, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
• The tags themselves also become bits of trash the second the pop off, with the potential to pollute pristine ecosystems.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2020
• And the sewage and trash from unsanctioned RV encampments pollute the watersheds of the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
• Trump’s record is one of rolling back these measures and inviting major industries to pollute more.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 13 Aug. 2024
• That is raising concerns that the assets will continue to pollute, perhaps even at a greater rate, but away from the public eye.
  — New York Times, 10 May 2022
• So that the ride will finally stop polluting the environment at the same time, is even more special.
  — Germain Lussier / Gizmodo, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2024
• Yet the literal tons of trash annually left by rivers and overpasses can also pollute waterways, to say nothing of the fire risk.
  — Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024
• In recent decades, however, the military has also been polluting the home front, most notably with a toxic chemical never heard of in the era of muskets and drums: PFAS.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024