Example Sentences

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“This easy change eliminates plastic bags from the point of sale and helps California significantly reduce the plastic waste that is contaminating our environment and waters.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2024

"This is a huge ecological catastrophe," Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko told the BBC, adding that more than 150 tonnes of engine oil from the dam near the town of Nova Kakhovka is contaminating the water.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2023

Thirty years later, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency knows more - construction debris is contaminating groundwater at landfills around the state.

From Washington Times • Mar. 12, 2018

Nearby residents were evacuated and radiation is contaminating Japanese beef and other products.

From BusinessWeek • Aug. 3, 2011

I don't like the spy business myself any too well; I'm afraid England is contaminating me, and if I stayed here a few years I might degenerate so far as to think your newspapers interesting.

From A Woman Intervenes by Barr, Robert