How to Use pollute in a Sentence

pollute

verb

• Car exhaust pollutes the air.
• Miles of beaches were polluted by the oil spill.
• The billowing haze and ash will cloud and pollute the state for weeks if not months.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 15 Sep. 2020
• The world needs a plan to adapt The risks of aged, polluting cars sent abroad will not be borne by the Global South alone.
  — David Zipper, Vox, 3 Sep. 2024
• The emissions rain down as an oily residue, polluting homes and farms.
  — Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
• Some fans think that mark is like a virus, polluting Bran from the inside out.
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 26 Apr. 2019
• Car engines have advanced over the years to pollute less.
  — CBS News, 10 Dec. 2021
• This could mean airlines will get a free pass to pollute until 2024.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 4 June 2021
• But this is the first time Samara is being polluted with it on her walk home.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2024
• Deep-fryer oil should not be poured on the ground or down a storm drain, which could pollute waterways and clog the storm pipe.
  — Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 26 Nov. 2020
• There is a new push for electric school buses, which would pollute less.
  — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
• The crew complied—but Matveev told the officials that his ship had an oil leak and might pollute their waters.
  — Tristram Korten, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Aug. 2020
• Nicholas warned this disparity would see those that pollute the least suffer the most.
  — NBC News, 9 Aug. 2021
• Still, perhaps the best way to tackle the issue isn’t policing the sale but polluting the appeal.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2024
• Indigenous groups want to know if that means the river can now sue people who pollute it.
  — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 11 Dec. 2020
• Wildfires are back, and with them is the risk of smoke clouding the metro Detroit sky, polluting the air quality.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 31 May 2024
• But because the Great Salt Lake is drying up, toxins threaten to pollute the city’s air.
  — Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• The idea was to ensure that the EPA could protect those new bodies from being polluted.
  — Christopher Harress | [e-mail], al, 17 Sep. 2019
• But not all automakers are on board with a plan to pollute the planet for as long as possible.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 June 2022
• Thames21 is a group that organizes clean-ups along the foreshore of the River Thames, in the UK, and educates people to not pollute it.
  — Mark Tutton and Ed Scott-Clarke, CNN, 24 June 2019
• The decade-old program, which allows large emitters to buy allowances from the state to pollute and trade them with other companies, is one of the largest in the world.
  — Sophie Austin, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2023
• Thus, old, polluting coal plants that likely would have closed without the ACE rule may now remain open for longer.
  — Emily Atkin, The New Republic, 20 June 2019
• Margo’s beloved grandfather and run by her uncle polluting both the water and the air.
  — Jane Smiley, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• But the ad tech industry is a toxic spill that has polluted the entire web and app business.
  — NBC News, 4 June 2019
• In reality, the cars polluted as much as long-haul trucks.
  — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• Over time, fewer allowances are made available with the goal of spurring companies to pollute less.
  — Kathleen Ronayne, ajc, 24 Feb. 2022
• The chemical also polluted the food web and destroyed the eggs of Bald Eagles.
  — The Editors, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• A few years ago, Davis wrote about how Oregon had become a dumping ground for high-polluting diesel trucks from states with tougher rules.
  — oregonlive.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• The 36-year-old singer shared the snap on her Instagram Stories Sunday, Jan. 12, showing the back of her house appearing to be engulfed in flames as smoke polluted the air.
  — Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
• Aside from the methane smell that permeates the area around the landfill and the dust that pollutes our air, the decaying trash is most certainly leaching into the Biscayne Aquifer, the source of our drinking water.
  — Jacqueline Railey, Sun Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 8 Mar 2025