Sentence examples for the polluting from inspiring English sources
verb
To make something harmful, especially by the addition of some unwanted product.
- The factory polluted the river when it cleaned its tanks.
Efforts to curtail the polluting aspects of China's growth have fallen short (see "Pollution and Prosperty").
Such is the polluting power of journalistic innuendo – as our tabloids have long known.
The polluting companies her husband campaigned against remain open and the authorities have closed only unprofitable ones, she says.
It was seen as the perfect Muslim city, away from the polluting Christian influence of the Mediterranean.
Only 41 days were fairly low on pollution.Many of the polluting factories on the mainland are owned by Hong Kong businesses.
Avoid the polluting chugging houseboats that cruise along the motorway-like larger canals and take a kayak for a tenth of the price through the smaller, unexplored waterways.
The Supreme Court said it based its repeated orders to close the polluting industries on the premise that health is the overriding concern.
It was my sense that the environmental disaster, so long misrepresented by the polluting chemical companies, had a deadly effect upon all who lived in its vicinity.
Toxicity and/or persistence determine the polluting principle of these substances.
Among the polluting substances, greenhouse gases (GHGs) have steadily assumed a main role.
They copied [the polluting U.S. lifestyle].
