Sentence examples for layer of pollution from inspiring English sources

The city seemed oppressive, with sad faces, lost hopes and a dark layer of pollution hanging in the sky.

But her statement this week, and the doubts it raised, ensured that wherever she goes her aura will bear a permanent stain, like a thin layer of pollution hanging above the horizon in an otherwise clear blue sky.

In August of last year, the Egyptian environment ministry declared a state of emergency to deal with a thick layer of pollution that hung over the city for days.

There has been a sixfold increase in fine aerosol emissions locally since the 1930s from forest fires, domestic heating and diesel use, creating a layer of pollution 3km thick over the Indian Ocean.

"I live high in a tower block in the east of the city and looking out of my window today I saw the difference straight away: the sky has never been this blue, it really is different without a hazy layer of pollution hanging in the air," she said.

As the comet enters the atmosphere, it burns up in the thick layer of pollution over Springfield, popping Skinner's weather balloon and destroying Ned's bunker on the way.

Smog is now such a problem in China's cities that it's 20 million surveillance cameras can no longer see through the thick layers of pollution that choke the streets on an almost daily basis.

So imagine astronomers' surprise when they discovered that some white dwarfs are cloaked in layers of "pollution" made up of silicon, oxygen, and other elements much higher up on the periodic table.

The layers of pollution and the cries of children are a thick muck from which to emerge.

The study backs UN research that suggests a layer of air pollution, the "brown cloud", regularly covers the upper atmosphere over Asia between January and March and could precipitate an environmental disaster that could affect billions of people.

Atmospheric brown cloud, a layer of air pollution containing aerosols such as soot or dust that absorb as well as scatter incoming solar radiation, leading to regional and global climatic effects and posing risks to human health and food security.