Polluted Sentence Examples

The defiant, polluted and oppressive city is condemned for failing to regard the warnings.

How do you know it's not polluted?

Once polluted, groundwater is extremely difficult to clean up.

I was quite sure that the sea was highly polluted.

The recognition of the dangers accompanying the drinking of polluted water or milk, or of those attached to the breathing of a germ-polluted atmosphere, has been the natural sequence of an improved knowledge of pathology in its bacteriological relationships.

A thing once uttered by the tongue becomes polluted.

How do you know your well water isn't polluted?

The parking lot was polluted with traffic noise and exhaust fumes and littered with the packaging of consumer products.

Water with high BOD figures are badly polluted, lower figures are better.

In our polluted world, mercury and other heavy metals can contaminate fish.

The water supply, deemed ample when the prison was planned, became polluted under the congested conditions.

In the Hephaesteia (the particular festival of the god) there was a torch race, a ceremonial not indeed confined to fire-gods like Hephaestus and Prometheus, but probably in its origin connected with them, whether its object was to purify and quicken the land, or (according to another theory) to transmit a new fire with all possible speed to places where the fire was polluted.

The shallow well, however, rarely supplies enough water for more than a few houses, and being commonly situated near to those houses the water is often seriously polluted.

Yet it cannot be too constantly urged that such filtration depends for its comparative perfection upon the surface film; that this surface film is not present when the filter is new, or when its materials have been recently washed; that it may be, and very often is, punctured by the actual working of the filters, or for the purpose of increasing their discharge; and that at the best it must be regarded as an exceedingly thin line of defence, not to be depended upon as a safeguard against highly polluted waters, if a purer source of supply can possibly be found.

The axe, as being polluted by murder, was now carried before the court of the Prytaneum (which tried inanimate objects for homicide) and there charged with having caused the death of the ox, for which it was thrown into the sea.

A toxic blue-green algae and botulism have been suspected as well as polluted silt in the lagoon.

In fish, polluted water is the main cause of dioxin contamination while animals are mostly exposed to dioxins through the air.

In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer maximum at polluted sites, such as Payerne, Hohenpeissenberg and Indiana is controlled by tropospheric photochemistry.

But it must also be an aim to improve and enhance environmental quality in those areas already degraded or grossly polluted.

In 1964 the heavily polluted original was replaced by a copy.

A seriously polluted river Effects of pollution Pollution can make rivers smell.

In 1986 the river was severely polluted by a chemical factory fire.

I 've polluted your mind in 25 little stages.

Much of the land is fragmented, polluted and divided by waterways, overhead pylons, roads and railways.

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Hence, if, after assuming a body and sojourning upon earth, it becomes polluted by sin and fails to acquire the experience for which it descends from heaven, it must three times reinhabit a body, till it is able to ascend in a purified state through repeated trials.

Is Bristol, set among the rolling green hills of the west, really the most polluted city in the UK?

From increased carbon emissions to polluted oceans, the earth is slowly suffocating.

The Law created boundaries around Israel to prevent them from becoming unclean through contact with polluted things.

Soil contamination affects people and animals that come in direct contact with polluted soil, with lead poisoning or illnesses from pesticide exposure among the many possibilities.

Polluted air from chemicals and other substances causes a chain reaction, affecting many other environmental elements.

Breathing in a steady stream of polluted air can cause a multitude of health problems, especially for those living in urban areas where the concentration of pollution is much higher.

Once the ocean is polluted, important marine life gets destroyed and precious ecosystems become unbalanced.

A fire built for warmth or cooking produced smoke, which filled the caves and polluted the air.

Polluted water can affect drinking water supplies, other natural resources, and living things throughout the planet.

These substances pose a threat to all animals and plants that come in contact with the polluted water.

Since the majority of electricity used is generated by fossil fuels, using it causes the atmosphere becomes polluted with carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the substances many believe is linked to global warming.

Since conventional farming uses a lot of pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and other toxins, the soil becomes polluted.

Environmental and other conditions, such as breathing secondhand smoke, breathing polluted air or chemical fumes, or swallowing substances that burn or scratch the throat can also cause pharyngitis.

Chidren and adolescents with otitis externa often have been diving or swimming for long periods of time, especially in polluted lakes, rivers, or ponds.

Swimming in polluted water and in pools or hot tubs without good chlorine and pH control should be avoided.

As the world becomes more populated, the air becomes more polluted and many people choose personal portable air ionizers to combat the air contaminants that immediately surround them.

Every day we use that money to pay for crews to travel to polluted regions of the waterway to remove litter, saw apart large natural debris and work to prevent soil runoff and erosion.

Possible environmental factors, such as mercury exposure, lead poisoning, polluted water, living near toxic waste sites, have been studied.

The Rejuvenating Serum infuses hylaronic acid to hydrate the skin plus vitamins ACE to help nourish the skin and fortify against damage from the sun and our polluted environment.

The district council are also empowered to obtain an order of justices directing the closing of any well, tank or cistern, public or private, or any public pump the water from which is likely to be used for drinking or domestic purposes, or for manufacturing drinks for the use of man, if such water is found to be so polluted as to be injurious to health.

Even yet medical science has not determined the effect upon the human system of water highly charged with bacteria which are not known to be individually pathogenic. In the case of the bacilli of typhoid and cholera, we know the direct effect; but apart altogether from the presence of such specific poisons, polluted water is undoubtedly injurious.

Two young boys on a seemingly hopeless quest discover that where hope exists, life in a polluted river can renew itself.

In the centre of the town are a number of irregular and narrow streets, and the river, polluted by the refuse of dye-works and factories, constitutes a constant eyesore.

Its surroundings are bleak and sterile and its waters brackish and polluted with the drainage of the neighbouring city for nearly four centuries.

At the entrance to the Euxine, at Salmydessus on the coast of Thrace, they met Phineus, the blind and aged king whose food was being constantly polluted by the Harpies.

And say the net cost to society of having a gallon of polluted water dumped into the river—the cleanup cost, or the economic impact of the gallon of dirty water—is $10.

Unlike the regular military, the political elite's security private forces were made up of children from the upper class to prevent the elite class from becoming polluted by the poor.

The cockle is liable to the same suspicion as the oyster of conveying the contamination of typhoid fever where the shores are polluted, but as it is boiled before being eaten it is probably less dangerous.

Nature is throughout corrupt and polluted, but " the present evil phenomena are rectified in other regions and in some future period of existence."