How to Use hydrocarbon in a Sentence

hydrocarbon

noun

• The gems form in the hydrocarbon-rich oceans of slush that swath the gas giants' solid cores.
  — Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• This method utilizes solvents like ethanol or hydrocarbons to dissolve the cannabinoids present in the hemp plant.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2023
• But on Titan, the rivers and lakes are full of sloshing liquid hydrocarbons.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2019
• Home to the largest hydrocarbon reserves in Europe, the country is the world’s third largest exporter of natural gas, and one of the top exporters of crude oil.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 10 Sep. 2021
• If all goes well, a massive fireball of hydrocarbons will ignite in the New Mexico desert some time in the next year.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2018
• An image of a well site is seen through the kind of camera used by Ms. Ostroff; the device can spot hydrocarbon emissions.
  — WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
• For the block copolymer, the second block was a hydrocarbon with most of the hydrogens swapped out for fluorine atoms.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 July 2022
• Since the discovery of hydrocarbon deposits beneath the seabed a few years ago, both countries have claimed the right to exploit the resources.
  — Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2020
• The red streaks in the composite image are caused by glowing, hydrocarbon-rich dust.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• It's been a banner week for hydrocarbons made from waste gases.
  — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2018
• Titan’s rivers, lakes and seas—like Kraken Mare—are filled with hydrocarbons.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2020
• But there are no hydrocarbons in the granite below us, only heat.
  — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 19 July 2023
• Best of all is that none of this has to come at the expense of oil and gas companies’ bread and butter: to extract and burn as many hydrocarbons as possible.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2023
• Isoprene is the most abundant hydrocarbon in our breath, and is thought to be the product of cholesterol synthesis in our bodies.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2016
• In the ’70s, a lot of the smog problem in L.A. was cleaned up by putting catalytic converters on cars and cutting down on hydrocarbon emissions.
  — David Marchese, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2022
• For one thing, COP events have in the past been hosted by hydrocarbon producing countries.
  — Kristen Lynch, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
• That's not to say the hydrocarbon-consuming version of the MC20 will be short on innovation, though.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 9 Sep. 2020
• The province is hydrocarbon country, dotted with tens of thousands of wells.
  — William Ralston, Wired, 16 Dec. 2021
• Unlike for the rest of the world, the war is an unexpected boost to public finances for the UAE and its hydrocarbon-dependent neighbors.
  — Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2022
• These bulky hydrocarbons, whiffed by the Huygens probe that Cassini dropped on the moon in 2005, eventually settle out of the atmosphere and coat the ground, like a veneer of soot.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2024
• But the idea that a carbon tax is a painless, efficient way to reduce hydrocarbons fails for three reasons.
  — Mark P. Mills, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2019
• Like Enceladus, Titan is a chilly place, and so those liquids are hydrocarbons rather than water.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• Lots of oil and other hydrocarbon deposits in the Monterey Formation, that is what!
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2011
• As the age of the hydrocarbon enters its final era, the action increasingly moves to Asia and plastics take center stage.
  — Andres Guerra Luz, Bloomberg.com, 28 Aug. 2020
• To get through an orbital test phase beginning soon and on to the moon and Mars in coming years, Musk has been searching for supplies of the hydrocarbon, which is found in natural gas.
  — Eric Killelea, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Dec. 2021
• Others cautioned that Premier’s estimate of the size of the discovery refers only to oil-in-place, not the amount of hydrocarbons that could be recovered from the field.
  — Robbie Whelan, WSJ, 12 July 2017
• One of the great mysteries of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the temporary smoothness of its hydrocarbon lakes in places, a state that sometimes last for days or weeks.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
• The share sale is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s plan to set up the world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund and reduce the economy’s reliance on hydrocarbons.
  — Bloomberg.com, 7 Jan. 2018
• Synthetic fuels aim to be carbon neutral, and those used in racing are made by combining carbon and hydrogen — to make hydrocarbons — just like gasoline used in cars today.
  — Sam Joseph, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
• That shallow sea later formed oil and gas hydrocarbon reservoirs trapped in rock formations, which eventually resulted in the North American oil exploration that brought highs and lows to the region.
  — Linsey Miller, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024