Sentence examples for relatively cleaner from inspiring English sources

A transformation of America's electricity generation is already under way, with coal-fired power plants shutting down or replaced by cheaper, and relatively cleaner natural gas.

Children growing up in relatively cleaner environments were defenseless against the disease, which attacks the spinal cord and leads to paralysis of the muscles.

Electric cars, however, have had more attention from carmakers, and they could be powered by electricity from relatively cleaner natural gas.

The advantages The car club fleet is relatively cleaner than privately owned vehicles, typically producing 30% less CO2, while a growing number are electric with zero tailpipe emissions, according to Kubitz.

Even so, Mr. Hasselknippe said that a significant number of power utilities had switched to relatively cleaner natural gas during the first half of 2008 because carbon trading had driven up the price of burning coal.

When the fishing boats returned from the relatively cleaner waters of the South China Sea, he bought a bag of small fish and carried them, still flopping, to the open-air Hoi Fat Seafood Restaurant, which charged a few dollars to flash-fry them in garlic and chili.

But now … well, for many, Theresa seems to have become, relatively, the cleaner thing.

In a column about domestic slapdashery, the great Katharine Whitehorn once asked: "Have you ever taken anything out of the dirty-clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?" There is something of this to Theresa May's leadership bid.

In her famous 1963 essay Sluts, Katharine Whitehorn described sluts as women who fish their clothes "back out of the dirty clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing," and spend their money "at the beginning of the month like drunken sailors".

The celebration of sluts – in the sense of those slightly impatient of conventions of feminine daintiness – was dedicated to "all those who have ever changed their stockings in a taxi, brushed their hair with someone else's nailbrush or safety pinned a hem" and particularly to anyone who had "taken anything back out of the dirty-clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing".

Gas-fired plants are relatively inexpensive to build, cleaner burning than coal-fired operations, and -- at least until the run-up in natural gas prices began last year -- cheaper to operate.