How to Use hazmat in a Sentence

hazmat

noun
  • The bomb squad and a hazmat team were also called to the scene.
    Christian Martinez Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Men in white hazmat suits pour lime over the brown soil to seal the graves.
    Sarah Sirgany, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Now, all that’s left is a gray hazmat zone filled with the sorrow of what has been lost.
    Jacqueline Yoo, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Wrapped in a hazmat suit, she's led to the corpse of a middle-aged woman with a gnarly bite on her left leg.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Health workers in hazmat suits arrived at their door in the middle of the night to take them away.
    Rebecca Kanthor / Shanghai, Time, 12 Apr. 2022
  • On our way through the arrival hall, we were waylaid by men in hazmat suits.
    Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 14 June 2022
  • Woburn fire crews responded to the scene, along with state hazmat teams, Wark said.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2021
  • There are two hazmat vehicles at the scene cleaning up the oil.
    Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Nov. 2021
  • In the United States, hazmat suits have remained a rare sight in daily life, even at the height of the pandemic.
    Nectar Gan, CNN, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Not through gloves, goggles, a mask, a hairnet, a hazmat suit and plastic sheets.
    Lotte Bowser, refinery29.com, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The road was closed for several days amid a weeklong hazmat cleanup.
    Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2023
  • Several men in hazmat suits then passed the bodies to a small crowd of men wearing face masks.
    Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Here’s hoping Bloom has a hazmat suit to protect him in all these dumpster dives.
    Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2023
  • See the man in his Army uniform, see the man in his lab coat, see the man in his worker’s coveralls, his leather apron, his hazmat suit.
    Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 20 July 2023
  • His hazmat suit had split and plumes of ash were falling onto his lower back.
    Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Friday night, there’s the rehearsal, for which the dress code is hazmat-casual.
    Al Mullen, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2022
  • There also is a huge difference in the amount of hazmats involved.
    Usa Today Network, The Courier-Journal, 25 July 2023
  • Riot police dressed in hazmat suits then stepped in and urged workers to return to their dorms.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Michigan's worst non-pipeline hazmat accident of the past decade could have been a whole lot worse.
    Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2023
  • The most pointed image is of the artist himself, wearing a hazmat suit and standing atop a stump in a clear-cut forest.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Two hazmat employees sprayed pools of blood and splotches staining the road.
    Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Dozens of people in hazmat suits are standing outside the airplane doors.
    Maggie Rulli, ABC News, 3 Feb. 2022
  • On one beach section, workers in hazmat suits and rakes cleaned up tar balls from the spill, while beach-goers and their dogs ran between them.
    Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 6 Oct. 2021
  • All were masked, but none had the hazmat-style equipment of the pandemic's beginning.
    Jeannie Roberts, Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2022
  • The few people out on the streets were mostly dressed in hazmat suits, police included.
    David Culver, CNN, 12 May 2022
  • The fire department said that a hazmat team dealt with the mess in the canal by using boom absorbents, which are also used to control oil spills.
    Rebecca Loroff, Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2023
  • These whiskeys are strong but never hazmat proof, and most taste even better after adding a few drops of water or a large ice cube.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Booms of the sort used to contain hazmat spills on lakes and rivers are coiled on the floor, and two small pools of water lap within frames that shift slightly to elicit small waves.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • Masks and even hazmat suits will likely be a common sight once cleanup commences, Poentis said.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Around 9am, two nurses in blue hazmat suits came by to administer PCR tests.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 8 Nov. 2022

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