pollute

Example Sentences

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Each year, the government rolls out emergency steps - halting construction, banning polluting vehicles - to curb the smog.

From BBC

If you don't want to pay our border tax, they say, just charge emissions fees on your polluting industries - collect the money yourselves.

From BBC

Microplastics are the current bete noire and rightly so, but we’re still in the dark about the causal calamity of a past era’s chemical polluting.

From Los Angeles Times

Fossil fuels pollute the air when they are extracted and when they are burned, but the steps between those two points involve far more than familiar scenes of drilling equipment and smoke-filled power plants.

From Science Daily

The dam collapse killed 19 people, polluted the river and destroyed hundreds of homes.

From BBC