How to Use hydrocarbon in a Sentence

hydrocarbon

noun

• This method utilizes solvents like ethanol or hydrocarbons to dissolve the cannabinoids present in the hemp plant.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• High hydrocarbon levels in the sludge have raised fire hazard concerns, and forced the city’s contractor to process it more slowly — without the use of an air dryer — for more than six months.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 13 Apr. 2022
• When a wound was infected, the hydrocarbon profile of the ant’s exoskeleton changed—and fellow ants seemed able to pick up on this difference.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• Low oil prices have strengthened the headwinds: Dubai is not hydrocarbon-rich but its economy feeds on petrodollars.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2020
• But none are made of water—instead, liquid hydrocarbons like methane are the building blocks.
  — Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2023
• Some of the world’s largest hydrocarbon producers and exporters, Gulf countries are also among the globe’s biggest polluters.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 11 Nov. 2022
• The damage allowed hydrocarbon fumes to vent from the storage tanks, contrary to Clean Air Act requirements, regulators said at the time.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2023
• This week, a boat loaded with explosives targeted an oil tanker at the Saudi port city of Jeddah, in the latest strike on the country’s hydrocarbon assets.
  — Rory Jones, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020
• Iran has long used its hydrocarbon resources to fund its terrorist proxies from Lebanon and Syria to Iraq and Yemen, and to finance illicit train-and-equip programs.
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
• Fossil-fuel rent is what economists call the money that goes from consumers to those who control the hydrocarbon supply.
  — The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2022
• There was tetraethyl lead, used in making gasoline, sludge, asphalt, hydrocarbon liquids and vapors, solvents such as kerosene, acidic residue and asbestos.
  — Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2022
• For years, the basin’s drillers have imported sand from Wisconsin, which produces sand granules of the right size and shape for use in the fluids used to fracture hydrocarbon-bearing formations.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Aug. 2022
• Mendis speculated that the comet’s dark crust was composed of some form of hydrocarbon, was perhaps five-inches thick and was cracked with long crevices that travel halfway around the nucleus.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2023
• Once flared the hydrocarbon has been safely treated, and potential emissions have been reduced by at least 98 percent.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 24 Jan. 2023
• In the summer of 2020, Greek and Turkish warships shadowed each other across the eastern Mediterranean as Turkey sent research ships backed by its navy to search for hydrocarbon reserves.
  — Andrew Wilks, ajc, 22 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024