How to Use uncontaminated in a Sentence

uncontaminated

adjective
  • If the person was to ever go missing, K-9 units have an uncontaminated smell to track.
    Harry Sayer, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 July 2017
  • Williams says the idea is to construct new habitat for fish and kelp in uncontaminated areas to build up healthy populations of fish.
    Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The city borrowed more than $17 million in federal-state loans to build a new treatment plant and drill new wells that tap into an uncontaminated aquifer.
    Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2022
  • That bacteria transferred from the shoes to otherwise uncontaminated floor tiles more than nine out of 10 times, the study subsequently found.
    Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
  • However, uncontaminated gluten-free oats are widely available from producers such as Bob’s Red Mill; just read the package to be sure.
    Ashleigh Spitza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2018
  • The quarantine indicates that perhaps there are other uncontaminated regions trying to keep the rain out of the border.
    refinery29.com, 4 May 2018
  • So the first job of every IT organization is to protect that data, keeping it uncontaminated for the workloads that rely on the data to drive the business forward.
    Steve McDowell, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Think: enough food, warm shelter in the winter, cool shelter in the summer, vaccination, sewers, fresh uncontaminated food all year round, much lighter workloads.
    Luke Dormehl, Fox News, 5 July 2017
  • Presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia, the work is an installation of a large pool of water and rocks against the backdrop of digital screens depicting the early days of an uncontaminated planet.
    Vivienne Chow, Quartzy, 15 June 2019
  • To that end, Paşca and his colleagues are working on finding a faster way to make organoid cells mature, since maintaining uncontaminated cell cultures for two years is unsustainable in the long run.
    Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2017
  • Testing of uncontaminated wells will now be done every two weeks, Berg said, to ensure that the contamination isn't spreading.
    Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2021
  • No documentation was found that proved the top soil used was uncontaminated.
    Kat Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 8 Nov. 2019
  • The Daily Mail never got an answer to its biggest question: Where are survivors of a nuclear war going to find uncontaminated water?
    Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Try transplanting some of your silver dollar plants to an uncontaminated area, making sure not to include any garlic mustard.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Unprotected farm animals were dead, while those that had been confined to fairly solid barns with uncontaminated feed had a fair chance of surviving.
    Nan Randall, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2018
  • To ensure a perfect, uncontaminated seal, the canisters—weighing 26 tons when filled—will be welded shut by electron beams rather than the more common sacrificial-electrode method.
    Tim Heffernan, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2012
  • Muller is currently assembling stories and recipes for a second book, which will focus on her journey from Manhattan to the remote farm as well as the traditions of the uncontaminated interior heart of the island.
    Valentina Di Donato, Forbes, 25 June 2021
  • Suddenly there was a recognition that design could not take uncontaminated water, stable food supplies or clean air for granted.
    Nikil Saval, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Can producers scale up to meet demand while ensuring all products are clean/uncontaminated?
    Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The contaminated milk does not smell or appear any different from uncontaminated raw milk.
    Shiv Sudhakar, Fox News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The remediation process in the neighborhood near Park Crest — which entailed excavating soil, moving it to another location and replacing it with uncontaminated soil — was wrapped up in mid-April.
    Dallas News, 10 June 2022
  • At first, producers began indiscriminately clearing parts of pristine forests in order to keep planting Gros Michel on uncontaminated lands but without much success.
    Agostino Petroni, Bon Appétit, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The company confirmed in 1976 that its waste had created a plume of contamination in the groundwater but waited another decade to connect residents to an uncontaminated water system, only doing so after pressure from the EPA.
    Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Despite recommendations that a water treatment system be installed at the breeding facility in 2016 so the monkeys could drink uncontaminated water, no such precaution has been taken.
    Rob O'Dell, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Environmentalists also worry that the government won’t invest in infrastructure that can better control water levels within the mines and ensure that groundwater and rivers remain uncontaminated.
    NBC News, 16 May 2021
  • Elderly and infirm residents were left in areas near radioactive contamination, and many others moved unnecessarily from uncontaminated areas (resulting in many deaths from winter conditions).
    Cham Dallas, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Produce great music uncontaminated by modern sensibilities?
    Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
  • However, discarding uncontaminated materials can also create an unnecessary expense.
    Carol Milberger, Wired, 7 July 2022

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