How to Use contaminant in a Sentence

contaminant

noun

• The contaminants in the burn scars may pose a threat for years.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
• The contaminants travel through the stalk of the plant into the leaves and flowers.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2023
• The agency ordered the cities to test the parks for contaminants that could pose a risk to public health and wildlife.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
• On the first night, temperatures in the teens and very light winds would have kept airborne contaminants close to the ground over the town.
  — Jill Neimark, STAT, 21 Feb. 2023
• The cap will be installed at the site to prevent the contaminants from spreading.
  — Michael Slaten, Orange County Register, 9 Oct. 2024
• Even loose dirt left on one’s boots from a trip to a farm can be a source of contaminants to the local flora and fauna.
  — Erica Kasper, WIRED, 15 July 2023
• The city is using a computer model to track the movement of the plume of contaminant through the river.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
• The argon would have to be chilled to –186°C and contaminants reduced to levels of parts in a trillion.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 8 Aug. 2019
• All the contaminants remain on the other side of the cell, where they can be collected and disposed of.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 June 2023
• Wastewater plants are not equipped to deal with this kind of contaminant, according to the study.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 24 July 2023
• In lab tests, Semprini found that the beads removed more than 99% of the contaminants.
  — oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2020
• In the clean rooms, magnets are finished with the help of robots, such as this blue one in the foreground, to remove contaminants.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 July 2023
• Even in the trace amounts found in food, these contaminants can alter the developing brain and erode a child's IQ.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2019
• And while thousands of tons of contaminants have since been removed, it is still being cleaned up.
  — Tatiana Schlossberg, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2019
• The system pumps water through the membrane, whose tiny pores allow the water to pass through, but trap the PFAS and other contaminants.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2023
• The process didn’t use heat or pressure, so contaminants didn’t melt into the plastic and could be filtered out.
  — Saabira Chaudhuri, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
• So the team also wanted to see whether the reaction would still work if there were contaminants.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2024
• The smoke pouring from the stacks, and clouds of contaminants were both going into Norwood and settling there back into the 1940s.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2024
• Each bottle seals tight and is designed to keep the product fresh, potent, and contaminant-free.
  — Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2023
• It is believed that much of the contaminant already made its way through the Wixom treatment plant by the time the release was discovered.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2022
• And the industry’s contaminants in the Bay Area have rendered a number of sites toxic.
  — Rakesh Kumar, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2023
• If a contaminant is found in one pot, the entire batch is discarded.
  — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2019
• In what contaminant the benzene is present was still unclear.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2021
• There’s a chance the team will find chick numbers are dropping in waters with higher levels of the contaminant.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2021
• To capture more dust and other airborne contaminants, use one with at least a 1000 MPR.
  — Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 July 2024
• The soil layer should be thick enough to filter contaminants formed by the decaying body.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
• These were in the days prior to masks, distancing, vaccines, and the knowledge that this virus is spread both as a droplet and airborne contaminant.
  — Nina Shapiro, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
• Then, wash the car, removing any surface contaminants such as dirt, grease, and road grime.
  — Anthony Alaniz, Popular Mechanics, 4 Feb. 2019
• According to the report, the major contaminants of the nation’s beaches are poop, poop and more poop.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 25 July 2019
• This means that pathogens and other contaminants can enter water lines.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 15 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 7 Feb 2025