How to Use pollution in a Sentence

pollution

noun

• The tests showed high levels of pollution in the water.
• The fish are dying of pollution.
• The act has ushered in decades of air pollution progress.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2023
• State of play: Swimming in the Seine had been banned since 1923 due to the river's pollution levels.
  — Ivana Saric, Axios, 17 July 2024
• There has been no shortage of press about plastic pollution in the ocean.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 8 Mar. 2023
• Each brings with it pollution in the form of a day-and-night barrage of trucks laden with merchandise.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• The technology doesn't emit any pollution from the tailpipe of a bus.
  — Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 24 Sep. 2024
• Any new gas power plants would have to comply with pollution caps as soon as they’re built.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 11 May 2023
• The best advice is to address the source of indoor air pollution and to ventilate your home.
  — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 2 May 2023
• It’s had a lot of problems with flaring and fires in recent years and high levels of pollution.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
• Thanks to a watershed that doesn’t produce much pollution, Lake George’s waters are clear, clean, and safe to swim in.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2023
• 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
• The glitter ban is just one piece of the European Union's plan to curtail plastic pollution.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023
• The team was searching for harmful levels of air pollution.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 12 July 2023
• Now, a recent analysis by the Guardian has ranked Houston as its sixth-worst U.S. city for air pollution.
  — Kennedy Sessions, Chron, 10 Mar. 2023
• It's widely considered one of the fastest growing forms of pollution on Earth.
  — New Atlas, 20 Nov. 2024
• Chief among them are determining the boundary of the dump site, mapping the spread of the pollution and tracking its migration across the food web.
  — Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2024
• For that, some economists say, a tax or fee on pollution is needed.
  — Coral Davenport, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• Anything that hides their scent–like air pollution–can cause a drop in the number of pollinators that can find them.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2023
• For this study, the researchers convert this to additional deaths each year due to the increase in pollution.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2023
• The health risk of air pollution caused by wildfire smoke continues to worsen.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
• The species is threatened, Bickford added, by habitat loss and pollution linked to logging and gold mining.
  — Harri Weber, Popular Science, 22 May 2024
• Not that long ago, Beijing was still a city of bicycles; today, it’s plagued by air pollution, much of it produced by cars.
  — David Owen, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2024
• In the 1970s, the first U.S. auto pollution regulations were drawn up.
  — James Morris, Fortune Europe, 9 Aug. 2024
• Vitamin E helps neutralize the effects of things like pollution and UV rays to protect you and your face.
  — Ann Kaiser, womenshealthmag.com, 31 May 2023
• What do big cities owe those towns and tribes for producing our power and living with our air and water pollution?
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
• How to stay safe from air pollution PM2.5 is a mixture of chemicals that change based on what’s burning, Anenberg said.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 16 July 2023
• What Kinds of Trees? Trees help keep neighborhoods cool, absorb rain water and clean up air pollution.
  — Kate Wheeling, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023
• The ranking highlights a large gap in plastic pollution between the Global North and Global South.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
• The agency's plan will address pollution in the westernmost of three sections within the site, where pollution is least severe.
  — Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 15 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024