How to Use fracking in a Sentence

fracking

noun

• There's a lot of good jobs that come to the fracking industry.
  — NBC News, 25 Oct. 2020
• Again, O’Keefe was not asking about a new fracking well in Wyoming.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2021
• Aera received 49 of the 69 fracking permits that the state has approved this year.
  — Dustin Gardiner, SFChronicle.com, 24 Dec. 2020
• Early in the fracking boom, lines of water trucks idled outside the plants’ gates.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2021
• The way to read the deal is as a bet on U.S. shale fracking and hedge against the left’s anti-fossil fuels policies.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2023
• Those included projects for fracking and for drilling in the Arctic.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
• Just a dozen new fracking permits have been issued statewide this year.
  — Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2021
• This includes on-site clean up and recycling of dirty water to use it on the next fracking job.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• Now, as oil and gas prices surge again, private shale drilling and fracking are leading a rebound in oil and gas drilling.
  — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2021
• The Permian — the largest oil-producing region in the US — sees more fracking than anywhere in the world.
  — Kevin Varley, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
• But Chemours, which was spun off from DuPont in 2015, has not spoken publicly about the use of these chemicals in drilling and fracking.
  — New York Times, 12 July 2021
• Private shale drilling and fracking has been a primary driver in the recent rise in U.S. oil and gas drilling.
  — New York Times, 2 June 2021
• Opponents of House Bill 507 say the new language would force Ohio to lease state parks and public lands for oil and gas drilling called fracking.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 7 Dec. 2022
• And George Skelton looks at Newsom’s proposal to ban fracking of oil and gas wells.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2021
• Sometimes a community doesn’t like the idea of a new fracking project just outside of town.
  — Donald Hughes, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• Biden stopped the Keystone XL pipeline and blocked new fracking on federal land.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 24 Mar. 2021
• The sand has tremendous value for the fracking industry.
  — Matt McKinney, Star Tribune, 12 Jan. 2021
• Green groups last spring petitioned the EPA to do this to effectively force curbs on shale fracking.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 June 2022
• There will be no fracking in exploration or production, Fowler said in an email.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2022
• The fate of fracking remains a campaign issue as the election draws to a close, the Chronicle's James Osborne reports.
  — Dug Begley, HoustonChronicle.com, 2 Nov. 2020
• During the process of fracking, chemicals, water and sand are injected at a high pressure to open and widen cracks below the surface of the Earth.
  — Caitlin McLean, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2022
• On the other hand, labs have to source their carbon from somewhere—and more often than not, it’s from fossil fuels via oil drilling or fracking.
  — Emily Farra, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2020
• The climate bill’s requirement for offshore lease sales is likely to increase offshore drilling and fracking, the group said.
  — Janet McConnaughey, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2022
• Hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, is not one of them.
  — Chelsea Clinton, STAT, 29 Apr. 2021
• As a result, fracking is regulated at the state level, and requirements vary from state to state.
  — Vivian R. Underhill, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2023
• Trump also generated huge turnout in the rest of the state, especially in the farming and fracking regions.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2020
• The recent months of high oil prices are already lifting output in the Permian Basin and other U.S. fracking regions.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2022
• And would seawater—which would already be used to sequester CO2 in Kelemen’s plan—be a candidate for such fracking?
  — Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2021
• One company is using saltwater to replace some of the freshwater used in the fracking process.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 22 July 2021
• Most consumers haven’t connected the dots between fracking and fashion, largely due to a lack of transparency from brands.
  — Emily Farra, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024