How do you use Contaminated in a sentence? See 20 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like dirty or infected, plus the exact meaning.
Contaminated in a sentence
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Contaminated meaning
simple past and past participle of contaminate
Example sentences (20)
Many lakes have been contaminated with saltwater so there is no drinking water and they need to be cleaned urgently.
Our rivers have become contaminated, affecting the health of our people and jeopardising our agricultural activities.
People usually become infected by eating raw watercress or other water plants contaminated with immature parasite larvae.
A non-infected person can catch the virus within seconds of coming into contact with a contaminated person.
However, as one ecologic disaster after another has shown, fresh water can become contaminated very easily.
It is to be noted that people are not infected by drinking contaminated water if it doesn't go up the nose.
It was assumed the water became contaminated while a sewerage pipe was being repaired, but the analysis did not confirm this.
As part of the dam`s removal the state will dispose of contaminated sediments off-site to reduce health risks, officials said.
As parents run berserk, was the air contaminated with evil for them to unleash uncalled attacks on innocent teachers this week?
In another suit, the company could pay as much as $12.5 billion to those claiming its chemicals contaminated public drinking water.
The already toxic environment is being further contaminated with influx of drugs, weapons and ammunition on an unprecedented scale.
Production there ended in 1945, but not before soil, sediments and some springs were contaminated.
The Chinese subtopic is designed to distract you from the topic, the danger of releasing contaminated water into the world’s oceans.
Cholera is contracted from a bacterium generally transmitted through contaminated food or water.
It's almost like his brain was contaminated by some element that affects his critical thinking.
As next steps, the team hopes to use the information from the mobile testing labs to examine the biological effects of contaminated water.
However, Hepatitis A can be prevented with a vaccine if the vaccine is administered within two weeks of exposure to the contaminated food.
How do you protect yourself against such contaminated water without a test to know what water may contaminated?
A from Amnesty International found that 90-95 percent of the potable water supply in Gaza was contaminated and unfit for human consumption.
Another resident also raised a concern over contaminated land as it is believed out-of-date tinned food was buried at the site in the past.
Common combinations with contaminated
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- contaminated with 38×
- contaminated water 33×
- be contaminated 16×
- the contaminated 14×
- of contaminated 14×
- contaminated by 10×
- are contaminated 7×
- contaminated food 7×
- been contaminated 7×
- to contaminated 7×
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