pollute
Example Sentences
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For now, heavily polluting sectors are protected from Europe’s carbon prices to stop crucial industries from leaving the bloc.
A major review of the state of the Welsh environment has warned of "polluted rivers, failing soils" and "collapsing wildlife".
From BBC
“Years later,” the author explains, “the first page of Google will continue to advertise their polluted moral status to the world.”
They can use electricity generated from increasingly clean sources, as wind and solar power replace polluting fossil fuels.
From BBC
Individual heating, fuelled by wood and coal, is the largest source of these emissions, worsened by polluting vehicles.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.