Sentence examples for was polluted 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.
"Already the field was polluted by health economists," Farmer said.
It was a grey place: the river was polluted and the streets black.
If there was one thing they understood, it was polluted air.
Part of the Hudson was polluted with PCBs by two General Electric plants.
"They say that history repeats itself: 150 years ago the River Thames was polluted; that's where we are again today.
Because the land was polluted by decades of industrial use, enclosed spaces cannot be built below the surface.
It turned out that the groundwater in Hinkley was polluted with trace amounts of chromium (VI), a heavy metal.
"The endgame," Mr. Reed said, "was that when it all came out, they wouldn't know what was polluted".
And I read some history, fascinating stuff, about, for example, how people didn't wash themselves because the water was polluted.
After a century of industrial use of the site, the soil was polluted with solvents, heavy metals and other contaminants.
Virtually the entire water supply of the stricken region was polluted either by the massive saline waves or by the decomposing bodies of the dead, many of which still lie unburied under the cruel sun.
