hazardous

Example Sentences

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The TSA screens passengers and luggage for hazardous items.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

There have been no initial reports of hazardous releases, loss of containment or pollution from the damaged containers.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

These gadgets could hunt for hazardous compounds like benzene or mold in home interiors, he says, or potential threats to first responders in wildfires or burning buildings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

The finding provides strong evidence that a kinetic impactor could be used as a planetary defense method to redirect a potentially hazardous near-Earth object.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

It was the kind of whole certainty, however independent^ the sum of its facts, that can make walking backwards more than normally hazardous, and I bumped smack into a baby carriage.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger