Adulterating is an English word with synonyms like adulterant or extraneous. Below you'll find 6 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Adulterating meaning
present participle and gerund of adulterate
Synonyms of Adulterating
Using Adulterating
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of adulterate
- Useful related words include: adulterant, extraneous, foreign, purifying.
- In the example corpus, adulterating often appears in combinations such as: adulterating the.
Context around Adulterating
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 6 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Adulterating
- In this selection, "adulterating" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, discussing, fanatical, 19lb and honey stand out and add context to how "adulterating" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include address by adulterating the return and earle discussing adulterating 19lb 9kg. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "adulterating" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with adulterating
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The messages also showed Earle discussing adulterating 19lb (9kg) of cocaine to make 26lb (12kg) to sell. (17 words)
He said it was reported that suppliers that were adulterating honey were finding ways around the C4 sugar test. (19 words)
If companies could source the flower from a reputable source that was not adulterating it with other substances, then it would be fine. (23 words)
That’s when we found some blog/forum posts about a scam where a fake buyer requests a refund, then returns an empty package to a different address by adulterating the return label, crucially to an address that’s in the same postal area as the seller. (47 words)
He added that some hibiscus merchants in Nigeria were of the habit of adulterating the commodity to get easy money, and when it boomerangs, it affects the entire business in the country. (32 words)
As Hitchens understood better than almost any of his contemporaries, religion endorses some of the most fanatical, adulterating and murderous behavior known to primates. (24 words)
Example sentences (6)
The messages also showed Earle discussing adulterating 19lb (9kg) of cocaine to make 26lb (12kg) to sell.
If companies could source the flower from a reputable source that was not adulterating it with other substances, then it would be fine.
He added that some hibiscus merchants in Nigeria were of the habit of adulterating the commodity to get easy money, and when it boomerangs, it affects the entire business in the country.
That’s when we found some blog/forum posts about a scam where a fake buyer requests a refund, then returns an empty package to a different address by adulterating the return label, crucially to an address that’s in the same postal area as the seller.
As Hitchens understood better than almost any of his contemporaries, religion endorses some of the most fanatical, adulterating and murderous behavior known to primates.
He said it was reported that suppliers that were adulterating honey were finding ways around the C4 sugar test.
Common combinations with adulterating
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: