How to Use carbon in a Sentence

carbon

noun

• These get carbon tips and finishers, making for a more distinctive look.
  — New Atlas, 13 Dec. 2024
• To become carbon neutral across its global supply chain by 2030, Apple set some goals.
  — José Adorno, BGR, 25 Oct. 2022
• Dominion, which also has gas and electric customers in other states, has pledged to have net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
  — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Oct. 2022
• Is the next Lincoln a teenager who wants action on climate change — but is prepared to make compromises in bringing the world closer to carbon neutrality?
  — John Fabian Witt, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2022
• Keele University estimate that streaming an album for just 17 hours would produce the same amount of carbon emissions as creating a vinyl record.
  — Aryn Baker, Time, 21 Oct. 2022
• By 2040, the company plans to become carbon neutral, according to a GM press release.
  — CBS News, 26 Oct. 2022
• Her company’s technique enables recycling without carbon emissions or toxic byproducts.
  — Amy Feldman, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
• The Flow Country’s great carbon sink stretched out to the south.
  — WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
• It’s scheduled to open in 2029 and will emit zero carbon from the start.
  — TIME, 20 May 2024
• Our forests, oceans, and soils can capture and store vast amounts of this carbon.
  — Time, 7 Dec. 2022
• The carbon filter removes up to 99.7 percent of smoke, dust, and pet dander.
  — Ellen McAlpine, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2023
• The shortness of the journey both reduces carbon emissions and ensures the herbs stay fresh.
  — Outside Online, 22 Nov. 2022
• The fire spewed nearly four times the carbon emissions as airplanes do in a year, study authors said.
  — CBS News, 27 June 2024
• The rest of the world averaged a 1.7% carbon pollution jump.
  — Time, 11 Nov. 2022
• The current plan to avoid this fate is to reduce net carbon emissions to zero within the next 20 years.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
• The rums are mixed, carbon filtered, and then rested in French oak casks for a smooth rum that's redolent of vanilla and caramel with just a hint of spice.
  — Lauren Hubbard, townandcountrymag.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• Brazil—and, by extension, the planet that depends on the Amazon as a carbon sink—seems to be at a turning point.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
• Livestock pastures with trees have been shown to hold more carbon than open pasture lands.
  — Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
• State of play: One of the biggest fights is over Initiative 2117, which would repeal the state's cap-and-trade law that places a price on carbon emissions.
  — Melissa Santos, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
• The best way to wean the economy off burning carbon for energy is to put a tax on carbon.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
• At the plant Just changing how corn is grown won’t lower the carbon intensity of ethanol enough.
  — Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2024
• As with all Priority bikes, the Current comes with a carbon drive belt first used in autos rather than a chain.
  — Nathan Borchelt, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2024
• Mountain bikes, carbon-fiber race bikes, children’s bikes — all gone.
  — Michael Corkery, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2022
• And while that post didn't calculate the carbon emissions of such training runs, others have done so.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
• The event has done the one thing such confabs are supposed never to do, which is expose the truth about climate change and the race to net-zero carbon emissions.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
• This forest type holds back much less water and stores much less carbon, which are key to slowing climate change.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2023
• The rich and powerful do love to flock to Davos in their carbon-emitting private jets to discuss climate change.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 20 Jan. 2023
• In this way, carbon is slowly deposited onto the thin slice.
  — Ana De Oliva, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024
• But slowing demand for flying cuts the need for carbon removal way down.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 31 Jan. 2023
• They're typically made from plastic derived from petroleum and the majority come from China, meaning they are transported thousands of miles in container ships, adding to their net carbon cost.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Dec 2024