How to Use pollutant in a Sentence

pollutant

noun

• This is because the pollutants in the air build up on the glass and window frame.
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Oct. 2024
• The fire sent smoke and pollutants soaring into the sky.
  — Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 23 Feb. 2023
• And even in those that aren’t yet impaired, the pollutant is building up.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2023
• Still a bit of haze, plus the normal summer pollutants.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
• In the process of creating that coke, all kinds of pollutants poured out of the plant’s smokestacks, Maher said.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2024
• To be clear, this finding applied to just one type of pollutant.
  — Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2020
• The level of risk depends on how much of the pollutant the ship was carrying and how intact the wreck is.
  — Avery Paxton, Discover Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
• Air filters help keep our home’s air clean and free of dust, dander, and pollutants.
  — Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Aug. 2023
• Many of those pollutants can run off and affect marine and plant life.
  — Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 19 June 2024
• As a home chef, candle-lover, and cat mom, there are a lot of competing scents and pollutants in my home.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 30 July 2023
• The aim: to get rid of greenhouse gases and other pollutants.
  — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
• These plants capture more pollutants than smooth leaves and the density of the leaves matters as well (hence, no trees).
  — oregonlive, 18 Feb. 2023
• To remove even more pollutants from the home, look for a vacuum with a HEPA filter.
  — Alida Nugent, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Nov. 2023
• Air quality in the West barely meets the EPA’s standard for one type of air pollutant.
  — NBC News, 22 Mar. 2022
• These are days with high concentrations of these pollutants in the air.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 4 June 2024
• Particles that are large enough to be seen floating in the air, yet are small enough to be inhaled, make up a group of pollutants known as PM10.
  — Tiffany Means, Treehugger, 7 June 2023
• The pollutant makes its way into fish and can destroy cropland.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
• The source of each pollutant is difficult to nail down, according to the South Coast district.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• That’s because there’s an increase in pollutants and pollen.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 6 May 2024
• As the first step at your bathroom sink, a cleanser can wash off makeup, dirt, excess oil, or other pollutants from a long day.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 11 Sep. 2023
• And these minerals can play a role in whether certain pollutants such as lead stay out of your water.
  — Sarah Blank, The Conversation, 20 May 2024
• Features The best air purifiers for smoke should remove pollutants from the air first and foremost.
  — Alida Nugent, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 July 2023
• As a pollutant, sulfur dioxide can cause acid rain and breathing it in can have harmful effects on the lungs.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 24 Feb. 2023
• Most ground-level smog is the result of pollutants that come from cars and trucks and interact with sunlight.
  — Kurtis Alexander, SFChronicle.com, 20 Apr. 2020
• Some are testing whether wetting a pen’s surface ahead of a storm reduces the amount of pollutants lifted into the air.
  — Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2024
• The chemical is considered to be a hazardous air pollutant by the EPA.
  — The Enquirer, 24 Apr. 2024
• When combined with nitrogen oxide, the two can react and form the pollutant ozone, or smog.
  — Halle Parker | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 2 Feb. 2021
• And to complicate things still, sometimes CFMs differ for the types of pollutants, varying in number from pollen to dust.
  — Alida Nugent, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Nov. 2023
• Will groundwater pollutants rise to the level of declaring it a superfund site right smack in the middle of densely populated North Broward?
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 Nov. 2024
• Metzger had several works that captured auto exhaust within a cube to make visible the pollutants.
  — Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024