smog

Example Sentences

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Typically, sales of the gas are restricted during the summer due to the volatility of ethanol and its contribution to smog, but the Farm Bureau maintains that new studies show the blend is non-polluting.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

The economy, the outdoors, our culture, and our pride in this place — the plague of smog didn’t just change our character, it became a character in our lives, and a miserable one too.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

It messed with our glamorous aviation industry; once, it skewed the odds at a beauty pageant because the planes flying contestants in from around Southern California to the Glendale airport couldn’t land in the smog.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

All of L.A. believed, and official L.A. passionately hoped, that once the war was over and all those smokestacks shut down, the smog would vanish too.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

By then, I was too exhausted to feel more than a twinge of trepidation as the hallucination faded into the smog.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros