Sentence examples for contaminating from inspiring English sources
The word "contaminating" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to something that is making another thing or area impure, especially by introducing impurities. For example, "Industrial waste is contaminating our water supply."
verb
Present participle of contaminate
As David Satterthwaite has put it (pdf): "Having access to a pit latrine is not the same in a rural setting where it is used by one family and can be sited to avoid contaminating water sources, and urban settings where 50 households share it and where there is so much faecal matter that it is very difficult to protect water sources from contamination".
A lot of the blame is landed at the feet of the school system, another vehicle The Wire uses to explore the institutional dysfunction contaminating the police and the city governance.
But in mid-2013 loose-fill asbestos was again found in a house, and it became clear the original program had in many cases not successfully removed the fibres, which remained in the walls and was sometimes contaminating living areas through cracks or openings.
A lawsuit is being brought to court by members of the indigenous Achuar tribe for contaminating the region.
But extracting samples without contaminating them is only one of many challenges.
Some argue that such "active ETFs" are contaminating the purity of the sector's appeal and increasing the costs paid by the investor (because the components of the index have to be changed more frequently).
Some of this gas, they warn, escapes as it rises to the surface, contaminating aquifers on the way.Fans of fracking retort that, done right, the technique is safe and clean and that done right it for the most part is.
He says that seawater has penetrated up to three kilometres (1.9 miles) inland in some places, killing crops and contaminating wells.
The end of the Gulf war and the death of Ayatollah Khomeini have calmed fears of Iran's revolution contaminating the Arab world.
If so, private efforts will surely carry people into space (though whether they should be allowed to, given the risk of contaminating distant ecosystems, is worth considering).
IMAGINE if the tiny amount of radioactive polonium-210 that killed a former Russian agent, Alexander Litvinenko, in London last month contaminating his family and more than a dozen other people from London's Mayfair district to Hamburg and Moscow—had instead been minute droplets of highly contagious smallpox virus, genetically engineered to neutralise vaccines.
