pollute

Example Sentences

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"Overall, UK electricity became slightly more polluting in 2025," concluded Carbon Brief, adding that the nation's electricity exports grew and imports fell last year.

From Barron's

Under its "clean power" target, the government aims to use hardly any polluting gas to produce electricity by 2030.

From BBC

If social media were a literal ecosystem, it would be about as healthy as Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River in the 1960s—when it was so polluted it repeatedly caught fire.

From The Wall Street Journal

An ambitious paralegal, Banna said she embraced the role she had in empowering residents to take on companies suspected of polluting their neighborhoods.

From Los Angeles Times

"Microplastics do not just pollute aquatic environments as visible particles. They also create an invisible chemical plume that changes as they weather," said lead author Jiunian Guan of Northeast Normal University.

From Science Daily