Example Sentences

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Wood, with its renewability and carbon-capturing capacity and material flexibility, must be an important component of CO2 emission reduction strategies moving ahead.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023

The country, which shares a border with Hungary, is a supporter of environmentally sound energy and has for decades opposed nuclear power over concerns about cleanliness, safety, and renewability.

From Reuters • Nov. 30, 2022

Understanding the remaining quantity, extractability, and renewability of geologic resources will help us better sustainably manage those resources.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

“Resources must be properly respected, workers in primary industries must not be exploited. Sustainability and renewability are part of the Islamic idea of ‘stewardship of the Earth’, which Generation M eco-Muslims … are championing.”

From The Guardian • Sep. 3, 2016

The bill of exchange may have an unlimited time to run, and its renewability is nowhere guarded against.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 4, part 2: John Tyler by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)