How to Use carcinogen in a Sentence

carcinogen

noun

• Cigarette smoke contains known carcinogens.
• That’s a lot of carcinogens to leave floating around for the sake of the dead.
  — Nicole Wetsman, Popular Science, 23 May 2019
• The carcinogen is still found in the soil and water, and 93 percent of Martinicans have traces of it in their blood.
  — Nicholas Triolo, Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2023
• Chloroprene was deemed a likely carcinogen by the EPA in 2010.
  — Sara Sneath | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 26 Aug. 2020
• Gas stoves leak benzene, a carcinogen that can cause leukemia.
  — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 23 Jan. 2023
• Asbestos, a Quebec town that is home to what was once the largest asbestos mine in the world, no longer wants to be named after the carcinogen.
  — Marie Fazio New York Times, Star Tribune, 21 Oct. 2020
• Dozens of recalls have been linked to the same probable carcinogen since last year.
  — CBS News, 1 Apr. 2020
• There are fish farting in the water supply, is that a carcinogen too?
  — Yvette D'entremont, SELF, 16 May 2018
• Officials declined to say what carcinogens might be in the smoke plume.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2018
• Some molds that grow in food crops such as corn, wheat, rice, and seeds release a carcinogen called aflatoxin.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 2018
• The carcinogen has been linked to multiple types of cancer.
  — Daniel Wine, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
• The chemical is a potent carcinogen best known from the film Erin Brockovich.
  — Emily Hopkins, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2018
• Asphalt contains carcinogens and has been linked to some forms of cancer.
  — Erick Mendoza, NBC News, 25 June 2023
• It’s easy to find a few witnesses who will contend that any product is a carcinogen.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2017
• Again, this recall was issued because 33 batches of the drug were found to have a carcinogen known as NDMA.
  — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 1 Jan. 2022
• And saccharin was removed from the carcinogen list in 2000.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 23 Aug. 2022
• There’s no way that apple-pie and fresh vanilla ice cream scent doesn’t contain carcinogens right?
  — Sam Gutierrez, House Beautiful, 26 Dec. 2018
• In time, additional classes of carcinogens were added to the list.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• The joint study found that 8.7 percent of all the samples contained traces of chromium, a heavy metal and carcinogen that can cause a rash when absorbed into the skin.
  — Alden Wicker, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Oct. 2020
• Clothes that are designed to resist wrinkles or stains are more likely to contain the carcinogen.
  — Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 9 Dec. 2024
• Over the past three years, millions of blood pressure pills that contain a probable carcinogen have been recalled around the world.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• The flurry of drug recalls due to carcinogens has prompted the Food and Drug Administration to assess the scope of the problem.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
• People are fine with drinking wine — that's a carcinogen, but that doesn't mean drinking wine is going to give you cancer.
  — Kirbie Johnson, Allure, 15 Sep. 2022
• Some studies have suggested the dye is a carcinogen to animals, but no research yet has been able to show the same case in humans.
  — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2025
• Many of the heavy metals and other contaminants in coal ash are known carcinogens.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2024
• It’s been classified as a carcinogen, according to the FDA.
  — Miranda Green, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2020
• There are also ways to cook meat that produce fewer carcinogens.
  — Emily Sohn, Sun-Sentinel.com, 6 June 2017
• The impurities in the drugs made in China turned out to be probable carcinogens.
  — Anna Edney, Bloomberg.com, 7 May 2020
• State's campus that had high levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, carcinogens that were commonly used in construction prior to being banned in the late 70s.
  — Zachery Eanes, Axios, 4 Dec. 2024
• The agency considers diesel exhaust a likely carcinogen.
  — Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 2 Mar 2025