How to Use formaldehyde in a Sentence

formaldehyde

noun

• The amount of formaldehyde in a flu shot isn’t enough to hurt you.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 19 Oct. 2020
• The smell of formaldehyde did not bother me in the slightest.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 26 June 2021
• The dancer, Linda Kay, kept the hand in a jar of formaldehyde in her bedroom.
  — Wired Blogs, WIRED, 20 Sep. 2006
• Though not high on the list of formaldehyde removers, this plant is a tough one to kill.
  — Emily Main, Good Housekeeping, 21 Nov. 2017
• But the cure also proved to be a kind of poison, or at least formaldehyde.
  — Brett Martin, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
• And formaldehyde can be used to create amino acids, which are the building blocks of life.
  — Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• The methanol is then converted to formaldehyde by the liver.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 30 June 2023
• The lip balm is safe for sensitive skin and is free of sulfates, parabens, and formaldehyde.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Dec. 2020
• This finding supports the idea that formaldehyde may cause leukemia.
  — Dr. Manny Alvarez, Fox News, 14 July 2017
• What is the artistic value of a shark pickled in formaldehyde (à la Damien Hirst)?
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
• The cold catalyst filter, on the other hand, strips formaldehyde from the air.
  — Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2020
• The look’s one of big jars filled with formaldehyde and puckered, wan specimens.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Sep. 2021
• Sources of formaldehyde at home are much more prevalent than some may imagine.
  — Tanya Akim, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• Among the objets up for bid was a sculpture of a golden calf presented in a tank of formaldehyde.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2021
• And in nail strengtheners, formaldehyde is supposed to bond with the nail’s keratin.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 29 Jan. 2024
• One showed that in just 24 hours, common household ivies could remove two-thirds of the formaldehyde they were exposed to.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 14 Nov. 2019
• For starters, Magic Sleek doesn’t include formaldehyde, so Holbrook didn’t have to wear a mask.
  — Stella Bugbee, The Cut, 21 July 2017
• There’s also formaldehyde in certain kinds of nail care, according to the FDA.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 29 Jan. 2024
• The air in the basement room was slowly filling with formaldehyde, which carried with it a cloying odor.
  — Oliver Whang, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2022
• For months, as his case dragged on, the key piece of evidence was submerged in a bucket of formaldehyde and stored in his lawyer’s office.
  — Lewis Kamb, The Seattle Times, 8 Mar. 2018
• Worse yet, the beer was rumored to be fortified with a dose of formaldehyde to prevent spoilage—a mummified beer in the land of the pyramids.
  — Steve Hindy, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2015
• Decades ago, some heard rumors that a dorm basement housed hundreds of diseased brains in jars of formaldehyde.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 2 May 2018
• They were found in 1982 in buckets of formaldehyde in a Woodland Hills storage container, many with dates and the name of a woman.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2022
• The second is a carbon prefilter that absorbs formaldehyde and odors such as smoke and cooking smells.
  — Matt Jancer, Wired, 1 Apr. 2021
• The flagship piece is that segmented shark, preserved in glass and steel tanks of formaldehyde and mounted atop the white marble bar.
  — Adam Robb, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 May 2018
• An average apple contains 600 times more formaldehyde than is found in a dose of the flu vaccine.
  — Anne P. Kim, The Conversation, 13 Nov. 2020
• But the formaldehyde-free conversion varnish isn’t so durable.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
• And then there was the snake, now floating in formaldehyde and introduced as Exhibit 1.
  — Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
• The polish is made without harsh chemicals like formaldehyde, resin, and camphor.
  — Lauren Finney Harden, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2024
• Its award-winning formula is devoid of harsh ingredients that might be found in other top coats such as formaldehyde and phthalates.
  — Lauren Finney Harden, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024