Sentence examples for to 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.
The bill's loan guarantees for nuclear reactors, wasteful spending on coal carbon capture, and exemption of Big Ag from mandatory reductions in carbon pollution are all boons to polluting corporations.
The poorest tend to be more exposed to environmental hazards such as inadequate housing and proximity to polluting industries, resulting in higher levels of indoor and outdoor air pollutants and, consequently, respiratory disease.
Nor are officials who turn a blind eye to polluting industries, unless they cause big accidents or trigger unrest.
A fifth of the contracts already awarded will go to polluting coal power stations, the report said.
In addition to polluting microbes, ocean waters sometimes have free-swimming organisms that cause swimmer's itch, as well as the stinging cells of jellyfish.
In addition to polluting the water, Ms. Schramm said, motorized craft can trigger oceanic stampedes that can crush younger marine animals and separate them from their mothers.
Tony Abbott would rather pay polluters to pollute and keep his head in the sand".
He said the government was paying polluters to pollute less under the Emissions Reduction Fund.
Polluters tend to pollute where there's already pollution.
The Australian Conservation Foundation said the only thing being "safeguarded" was the big polluters' right to pollute.
Polluters trade the right to pollute with substances such as nitrogen.
