How to Use carbonize in a Sentence

carbonize

verb

• So continued declines in battery prices over the next decade will be a huge help as the world tries to de-carbonize, too.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2020
• Yet the tremendous volcanic heat and gases spewed by Vesuvius carbonized the scrolls, turning them black and hard like lumps of coal.
  — Henrik Knudsen, Smithsonian, 26 June 2018
• Until the power grid is de-carbonized, even that benefit isn't too great.
  — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 17 Feb. 2020
• As your bread is carbonizing, assess your fridge for toppings.
  — Maggie Lange, Bon Appetit, 24 May 2017
• The scrolls’ unique state of preservation is due to the hot gases of Vesuvius, which carbonized the scrolls’ exterior but left many of them readable inside.
  — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• His technique for reassembling papyrus scrolls carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d.
  — Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 13 May 2020
• Can California, home to the world’s sixth-largest economy, essentially de-carbonize its entire electric grid in the space of 28 years?
  — Rob Nikolewski, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 June 2017
• In excavations some two millenniums later, the loaves finally came out of the oven — carbonized, but with their shape and texture intact.
  — Meara Sharma, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2019
• When the Nomex suit encounters intense heat, its fibers thicken and carbonize, absorbing heat energy.
  — Cory Graff, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2021
• They were carbonized in the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, entombed underground for more than a millennium and discovered 267 years ago — the pages of papyrus fused together like rings of an oak.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2019
• Biden's call for a massive expansion of electric vehicle charging stations and other infrastructure that would help de-carbonize the single largest sector of the economy contributing to global warming.
  — Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2021
• If de-carbonizing energy production is the greatest challenge to humanity, nuclear, which generates roughly the same carbon output per energy unit as solar panels and windmills, will be a major part of the solution.
  — Charles R. Morris, WSJ, 21 June 2018
• Major institutional investors are also trying to de-carbonize their portfolios.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 28 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024