smoggy

How to use smoggy in a sentence

• I’ve seen cargo ships idling off the coast of Long Beach because the ports are so backlogged, containers stacked high as apartment buildings, the horizon a smoggy cloud of emissions.

  I Tried Buying Only Used Holiday Gifts. It Changed How I Think About Shopping | Alana Semuels | November 24, 2021 | Time

• They roll over sidewalks and chip the mirrors of parked cars and spew pollution into the already-smoggy air.

  How American Shoppers Broke the Supply Chain | Alana Semuels / Los Angeles, Calif. | November 2, 2021 | Time

• Meanwhile, residents of some of the world’s largest cities—at least, those not living in wildfire zones—collectively reported that the air they breathed seemed cleaner than usual, even in some notoriously smoggy urban centers.

  Plastic production is a fossil fuel problem | Erica Cirino | October 14, 2021 | Popular-Science

• Various analyses in the spring showed little decline in air pollution, despite the steep decrease in traffic and economic activity—and some areas, like Southern California, remain as smoggy as ever.

  20 Things That Went Strangely, Wonderfully Right in 2020 | cleaf2013 | December 31, 2020 | Fortune

• Too much smoggy air pollution can decrease the amount of energy that we get from solar panels.

  Scientists Say: Solar | Bethany Brookshire | August 17, 2020 | Science News For Students