How to Use environment in a Sentence

environment

noun
  • Many plants are unable to survive in such a harsh environment.
  • He grew up in a loving environment.
  • These animals were raised in a controlled environment.
  • Pollution is bad for the environment.
  • We're trying to create a better business environment.
  • Heredity and environment are both important.
  • These fans aren’t afraid to laugh, scream, and cheer, often creating an environment that’s more akin to a rock concert than a run-of-the-mill film screening.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The hotel environment creates social distance, and everyone wears a kind of armor.
    Ben Croll, Variety, 20 Sep. 2024
  • But Jake Oettinger shined and the Stars feel very comfortable going into that environment.
    Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 16 May 2023
  • Two of the biggest challenges for astronauts include their sleep environment and the establishment of a natural sleep cycle.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 May 2023
  • Things are bad in Sanctuary, and every muddy smudge and bloodstain looks terrific against the highly detailed environments.
    Brittany Vincent, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2023
  • Ogunbowale was born in Milwaukee to Nigerian parents, and raised in an environment surrounded by sports.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 20 Sep. 2024
  • On the open road, the RS3 feels much more in its environment.
    Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Sometimes the want that is not good for the environment wins—and should win.
    Kate Wheeling, The New Republic, 17 Sep. 2019
  • See, the oven is as controlled of an environment as the Egg.
    Emma Wartzman, Bon Appetit, 28 June 2018
  • That would have been one of the funnest games to play in – just the environment and how good the rivalry is.
    Rene Ferran For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Again, the environment is on their side to plug-and-play someone at this spot.
    Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Mar. 2022
  • And the environments look a lot more varied this time around.
    Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 28 Mar. 2019
  • So my kids feel very at home in that kind of environment.
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2022
  • All of this, of course, is to create a safer environment, Varas said.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Aug. 2020
  • For 14 days, all 40 starters were kept in the same growing environment and were fed once a day.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
  • But the chemicals don't break down in the environment and have been linked to a host of diseases.
    Mike Hughlett, Star Tribune, 29 Jan. 2021
  • But in that environment, why bother with the pricey show at all?
    Marc Bain, Quartzy, 7 Sep. 2019
  • In terms of like this sort of seething, ready-to-blow prison environment that people maybe think about?
    Chris Francescani, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2020
  • But in the current environment, that may not be enough.
    Paul Tumpowsky, Travel + Leisure, 18 Dec. 2020
  • There are only puffers that are the right fit for your environment.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Sounds like the best kind of working environment to us.
    Melissa Minton, Glamour, 13 June 2018
  • Who would want to work in that kind of environment, where grown adults don’t even know how to act anymore?
    cleveland, 12 July 2021
  • That’s a level of pop that would hold up in any environment.
    Chris Welch, The Verge, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Prep at home, where the environment is clean and controlled.
    Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 22 Jan. 2020

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