How to Use carbon in a Sentence

carbon

noun

• And while that post didn't calculate the carbon emissions of such training runs, others have done so.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
• This could go a long way toward helping the United States shift to carbon-free energy.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2023
• Be on the lookout for ways to optimize energy usage and reduce carbon emissions.
  — Prasanna Singaraju, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• That groundbreaking result, Budil told lawmakers, brightens the long-term prospects for fusion as a clean, carbon-free, and sustainable source of energy.
  — Byjeffrey Mervis, science.org, 2 Mar. 2023
• And indeed, exuberant jet-setting has an undeniable carbon emissions problem; even subdued jet-setting has its issues.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 7 Mar. 2023
• Green hydrogen, on the other hand, is produced without fossil fuel, relying instead on water and carbon-free electricity.
  — Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
• It’s scheduled to open in 2029 and will emit zero carbon from the start.
  — TIME, 20 May 2024
• The carbon filter removes up to 99.7 percent of smoke, dust, and pet dander.
  — Ellen McAlpine, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2023
• The fire spewed nearly four times the carbon emissions as airplanes do in a year, study authors said.
  — CBS News, 27 June 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
• 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
• 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
• In this way, carbon is slowly deposited onto the thin slice.
  — Ana De Oliva, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024
• The peatlands also serve as a carbon sink, storing large amounts of the gas that would otherwise heat up the atmosphere.
  — Wanjohi Kabukuru, ajc, 8 Apr. 2023
• Mass adoption could make a big dent in road congestion and carbon emissions.
  — Joann Muller, Axios, 16 Aug. 2024
• The company stopped its carbon-offsetting program at the end of 2022 to focus on SAF.
  — Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 6 Apr. 2023
• The latter contains carbon atoms to help combat the possible outcome of an ashy, white cast.
  — Talia Gutierrez, Allure, 25 June 2024
• The trees’ wood and bark contains a lot of cellulose, a large biomolecule made up of the elements carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 June 2023
• His government has touted new, super-fast trains and plans to make the railways carbon neutral by 2030.
  — Bibhudatta Pradhan, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2023
• Here’s a list of our favorite plant tech to keep you informed and inspired along the way: Cleaning the air Plants help capture carbon and other pollutants from the air.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
• At PwC—where air travel is the single biggest source of carbon emissions—flying business class has just been banned.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023
• The plan notes that fossil fuel energy sources are the primary sources of carbon emissions in cities.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 9 June 2024
• Meanwhile, the United States and Europe saw decreases in carbon emissions due, in part, to burning less coal.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• They are also expected to mitigate at least one fifth, and more than one third, of carbon emissions.
  — Tiffany Turner, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
• In 2022, the court said Congress hadn’t given the EPA authority to curb carbon emissions from power plants.
  — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 7 July 2024
• The following assessment showed a healthy drop in heating energy (17 percent) and carbon emissions footprint (77 percent), mainly due to swapping coal for biomass.
  — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024