How to Use ozone hole in a Sentence

ozone hole

noun

• The more cold, the more clouds, the bigger the ozone hole.
  — Seth Borenstein, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2022
• In October, the ozone hole over Antarctica grew to one of the largest on record.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2023
• The hole will likely set a new benchmark for the largest ozone hole ever recorded in the North Pole.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020
• Within just four years of the discovery of the thinning ozone hole, the agreement was in force.
  — National Geographic, 29 Apr. 2019
• The ozone hole is related to the Antarctic polar vortex, a band of swirling cold air that moves around the Earth.
  — Jeevan Ravindran, CNN, 16 Sep. 2021
• At its peak on Sept. 20, this year's ozone hole covered about 9.6 million square miles.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2020
• Climate change is affecting the winds, but so is the ozone hole and short-term cycles like El Nino.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 1 July 2019
• The Arctic ozone hole is expected to heal and will likely disappear in the next month or so.
  — NBC News, 31 Mar. 2020
• The Antarctic ozone hole was the smallest it's ever been since its discovery.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 28 Dec. 2019
• The worry is that climate change and efforts to reduce the ozone hole get intertwined.
  — Seth Borenstein, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2022
• The ozone hole tends to result in those winds being pushed outward from Antarctica.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2022
• As such, few things could get my young heart racing more than news about that ominous real-life villain known as the ozone hole.
  — Lynn Johnson, National Geographic, 5 Feb. 2020
• The discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole did prove that CFCs have an effect on our atmosphere.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 6 July 2022
• The ozone hole has been slowly improving over the Antarctic since the year 2000, said the report, which is released every four years.
  — Jeremy Beaman, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2023
• Since then, scientists have been monitoring the size of the ozone hole, which is shrinking.
  — Don Lincoln, CNN, 13 Jan. 2023
• The Antarctic ozone hole in the Southern Hemisphere is known for its yearly variations.
  — NBC News, 31 Mar. 2020
• Decades ago, lab work was enough to figure out the complex chemistry that was depleting the ozone hole, Cziczo says.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 15 Dec. 2020
• The infamous ozone hole over Antarctica was discovered in the late 1970s.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2018
• But while the ozone hole is now in recovery, climate change may be having a similar effect.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2018
• This year's stratospheric ozone hole over Antarctica grew by 3.3 million square miles over last year's.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2020
• The ozone hole spurred countries and companies into action.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2018
• Every September, the ozone layer thins to form an ozone hole above Antarctica.
  — Eric Niiler, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2023
• In recent years, the warming trend has dampened, likely due in part to atmospheric changes caused by the recovery of the Antarctic ozone hole.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 5 Nov. 2020
• The annual ozone hole that forms over Antarctica has ballooned to near-record size, scientists say.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2023
• But the remaining ozone hole over the Antarctic is highly volatile and depends on weather conditions.
  — Laura Millan Lombrana, Bloomberg.com, 7 Oct. 2020
• Natural weather patterns in the Antarctic also affect ozone hole levels, which peak in the fall.
  — Seth Borenstein, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• Scientists first discovered the dramatic thinning in Earth's protective ozone layer and the ozone hole in the 1970s.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2019
• Some scientists link the puzzling reversal in Antarctic sea ice to the ozone hole over Antarctica, Parkinson said.
  — NBC News, 1 July 2019
• Research suggests the ozone hole altered the stratosphere in ways that have caused some large-scale changes in the flow of air around the Southern Hemisphere, including shifts in Antarctic wind patterns and the behavior of the jet stream.
  — Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2020
• But now comes some very good news — in the form of satellite data showing that the worrisome ozone hole in the atmosphere over Antarctica is slowly healing.
  — David Freeman /, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024