POLLUTANT in a Sentence

Learn POLLUTANT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
60 example sentences for POLLUTANT, such as:
1. Air pollution will soon soar above safety levels.
2. The costs of pollution control must be considered.
3. A miasma of pollution hung in the air above Mexico City.
4. Matters of pollution and the environment concern us all.
5. The obvious way of reducing pollution is to use cars less.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of POLLUTANT
pollutant
 n.  waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil
Classic Sentence:
1  We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
2  Deeply as I felt my own unconscious part in his pollution of an honest home, I believed that if I had been brought face to face with him, I could not have uttered one reproach.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
3  In ready-made clothes and ready-made high-school phrases they sank into propriety, and the sound American customs had absorbed without one trace of pollution another alien invasion.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
4  All are of one mind, to leave the guilty land, and abandoning a polluted home, to let the gales waft our fleets.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
5  He shall uproot Argos and Agamemnonian Mycenae, and the Aeacid's own heir, the seed of Achilles mighty in arms, avenging his ancestors in Troy and Minerva's polluted temple.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
6  Or else it looked as if it had gradually decomposed into that nightmare condition, out of the overflowings of the polluted stream.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. MARTHA
7  The crowded mirror of the Horican was gone; and, in its place, the green and angry waters lashed the shores, as if indignantly casting back its impurities to the polluted strand.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  Please check Australia's national public database of pollutant emissions.
2  A miasma of pollution hung in the air above Mexico City.
3  Air pollution will soon soar above safety levels.
4  The Act imposes more stringent regulations on atmospheric pollution.
5  The fine was for the company's pollution of the air near its plants.
6  The obvious way of reducing pollution is to use cars less.
7  There are various techniques for dealing with industrial pollution.
8  There is a connection between pollution and the death of trees.
9  Thousands of young salmon and trout have been killed by the pollution.
10  The Black Sea is facing ecological catastrophe as a result of pollution.
11  The problem of pollution in the city can not be wished away.
12  Matters of pollution and the environment concern us all.
13  Many people are concerned about the pollution of the environment.
14  The costs of pollution control must be considered.
15  They claim that one in twenty deaths can be directly attributed to air pollution.