Explore Pollutant through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like waste. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Pollutant meaning
A foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities.
Synonyms of Pollutant
Using Pollutant
- The main meaning on this page is: A foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities.
- Useful related words include: waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product.
- In the example corpus, pollutant often appears in combinations such as: air pollutant, the pollutant, pollutant is.
Context around Pollutant
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pollutant
- In this selection, "pollutant" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, air, regional, heating, emissions, accumulates and crisis stand out and add context to how "pollutant" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a multi pollutant crisis with and a regional pollutant can exert. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pollutant" sits close to words such as abm, adsl and adua, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pollutant
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
However, not every pollutant is as harmful or has the same effect as others. (14 words)
France offers six different types of stickers, based on a vehicle’s air pollutant emissions. (15 words)
The damage they cause increases as more pollutant is emitted, and persists as the pollutant accumulates. (16 words)
In the U.S., where burning forest biomass makes up only 1.3% of overall U.S. energy generation, it contributes about 3-17% of all energy pollutant emissions, according to the new study. (34 words)
Particulate pollution has been increasing in the cities of Rajasthan, which faces a multi-pollutant crisis with the levels of several gaseous pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide and ozone beginning to rise. (32 words)
Sulphur emitted by ships can be processed by a scrubber, which in turn discharges as a liquid which contains pollutant properties which have been found to pose a risk to sea life. (32 words)
Ozone is an air pollutant and you do not want to be adding that to your indoor air! (18 words)
Example sentences (20)
The damage they cause increases as more pollutant is emitted, and persists as the pollutant accumulates.
The same amount of a regional pollutant can exert a very high impact in some locations and a low impact in other locations, so it matters where the pollutant is released.
A team led by Marcus Halik, a professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, has now found a way to target estrogen as a pollutant in water.
Carbon dioxide is the big climate villain but its lesser-known cousin methane is also a powerful planet-heating pollutant.
France offers six different types of stickers, based on a vehicle’s air pollutant emissions.
Ozone is an air pollutant and you do not want to be adding that to your indoor air!
Particulate pollution has been increasing in the cities of Rajasthan, which faces a multi-pollutant crisis with the levels of several gaseous pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide and ozone beginning to rise.
Power giant Drax if facing a penalty after one of its biomass plants in Canada failed to submit an annual report on pollutant emissions to the country’s environment regulator.
The EPA division that screens new chemicals typically limits cancer risk from a single air pollutant to 1 case of cancer in a million people.
The pollutant causes smog and is linked to a wide range of health problems, including asthma, lung disease and premature death.
A law signed by Gianforte last year said environmental reviews may not consider climate impacts unless the federal government makes carbon dioxide a regulated pollutant.
In the U.S., where burning forest biomass makes up only 1.3% of overall U.S. energy generation, it contributes about 3-17% of all energy pollutant emissions, according to the new study.
Methane was a precursor of tropospheric ozone, a powerful air pollutant linked with roughly one million premature deaths per year due to respiratory diseases.
On Wednesday, the reading for the tiniest and most dangerous pollutant, PM2.5, was more than 77 times higher than safe levels set by the World Health Organization.
Professor Isabelle Durance, director of Water Research Institute, explains: "Spill hours don’t correlate to volume or load of pollutant.
Sulphur emitted by ships can be processed by a scrubber, which in turn discharges as a liquid which contains pollutant properties which have been found to pose a risk to sea life.
The model also demonstrated that factors such as water depth, light intensity, and pollutant concentration significantly influence the rate at which contaminants degrade.
Air quality has improved, as all other markers, including pollutant load, have shown a consistent reduction of 60 per cent during the entire phase of lockdown.
However, not every pollutant is as harmful or has the same effect as others.
It is also problematic to say that a pollution exclusion would also apply because of the definition of pollutant in the policy.
Common combinations with pollutant
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- air pollutant 10×
- the pollutant 7×
- pollutant is 6×
- pollutant emissions 5×
- pollutant in 3×
- pollutant and 3×
- of pollutant 3×
- more pollutant 2×
- as pollutant 2×
- pollutant to 2×