How to Use smog in a Sentence

smog

noun
  • Phillips’ loose lines and florid style evoke the smog-washed haze of the ‘80s.
    Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
  • The greenhouse gas rating is 5 and the smog rating is 5; both out of 10.
    Tony Leopardo, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2024
  • For the rest of the Hawkeyes, the Terps defense suppressed offense like smog on the hottest day.
    Katherine Fominykh, baltimoresun.com, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Everything was brand-new to me and the air was thick with smog.
    Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The greenhouse gas rating is a 7 and the smog rating is a 7; both out of 10.
    Tony Leopardo, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The greenhouse gas rating is a 5, and the smog rating is a 7, both out of 10.
    Tony Leopardo, The Mercury News, 29 May 2024
  • The greenhouse gas rating is a 5, and the smog rating is a 7, both out of 10.
    Tony Leopardo, The Mercury News, 14 July 2024
  • His question hung in the air like the kind of smog that used to drift down from the Mainland and choke them.
    Gish Jen, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
  • When smog and ozone levels spike, our homes should be a place to take refuge.
    Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The report deals with the two main types of air pollution that plague the U.S.: smog and soot.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2021
  • However, by this point our eyes and lungs were on fire from the gray haze of both the smog and heat.
    Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2022
  • German native first thought the state’s smog was just fog.
    Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 July 2022
  • The smog leads to watery eyes, migraines, and lung and heart diseases.
    Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Polluting states want the Supreme Court to pause Biden's plan to reduce smog.
    USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The view toward Lutsen Mountain was a vista of thick smog.
    Marc Fisher, Jennifer Oldham, Sheila Regan, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2021
  • More:Can face masks protect from wildfire smoke and smog?
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 30 June 2023
  • Wildflowers hadn’t bloomed yet, many trails were still closed and smog was at its worst.
    Adam H. Graham, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2022
  • No wonder the super-rich don’t tend to stop and smell the roses: The sky is blanketed in smog.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 3 May 2023
  • But Gordy, put off by the low-hanging smog, wondered aloud about these houses up in the clear air.
    Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Blast furnaces cranked out profits, steel coils and thick smog.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The ongoing wildfires have left the air on the West Coast filled with smoke and a historic layer of smog.
    Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Massive blackouts and smog have hit cities across Iran.
    Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2021
  • And that’s going to be a problem because there will be no storms to clear out the smog/haze in northern Utah.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Ground-level smog contains ozone, which is the main health concern.
    Ella Nilsen, CNN, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Vog is a term that refers to volcanic smog, state officials say.
    Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Winds flow up and down the mountainsides like tides, sweeping away and returning the smog.
    Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The severity of the year-long pollution stares in the face during winters in the form of toxic smog.
    Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2021
  • The smog in Delhi is so severe now that authorities have shut down schools in the city.
    Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Without so many cars, there was little smog, and the ocean breezes kept the temperature down.
    Les Carpenter, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
  • This smog thwarted observations of Titan’s surface during the Pioneer 11 and Voyager flybys.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2024

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