How to Use polystyrene in a Sentence

polystyrene

noun
Definition of polystyrenenext
  • The bean bag is filled with polystyrene beads that conform to your shape.
    — Phoebe Sklansky, Parents, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The use of polystyrene had been declining for more than a decade.
    — Alexandra Ossola, Quartz, 3 May 2020
  • Colbert handed a polystyrene foam cup of tea to a passerby and added a bill to a wad in her hand.
    — Gale Holland Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Some of the boys didn’t know how to swim and were stuffing pieces of polystyrene down their underwear to keep them afloat.
    — Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 29 May 2018
  • One of the worst forms of plastic is polystyrene, or Styrofoam.
    — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 3 Mar. 2021
  • What’s left for the landfill are items like plastic film used to bag supplies or polystyrene.
    — National Geographic, 29 Jan. 2020
  • The head was made of black polystyrene, the wing folds were made of black elastic stocking, and the whole contraption was covered in felt.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Clearly polystyrene is a poor diet for the larvae, Rinke says.
    — Fionna Samuels, Scientific American, 9 June 2022
  • The legislation would have made Maryland the first state to ban polystyrene foam.
    — Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • These containers contain polystyrene, which makes up a large amount of the microplastics found in the oceans.
    — Beth Krietsch, SELF, 19 May 2022
  • The works are all backed either by a type of durable plastic called polystyrene or by an aluminum panel.
    — Ted Loos, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2017
  • Yet Maryland is poised to become the first state to ban polystyrene food containers next year.
    — Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • In the new experiment, polystyrene spheres were sliced in the shape of a spherical cap, mimicking the shape of a spore.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 27 July 2017
  • Before, Nissin’s polystyrene cup was not suitable for the microwave.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Once the bonds opened up, strands of polystyrene formed in between the two ends, causing the volume of the microscale models to grow by as much as eight times in around four hours.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The groups of worms were given 1.8 grams of polystyrene, polyethylene, or both.
    — Erin Corbett, Fortune, 27 May 2018
  • As the search for Brotherton and Lucey went on, the fire continued to spread, feeding on the fresh air sucked up from below and on cork and polystyrene on the floors above.
    — Sean Flynn, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2017
  • Products made with polystyrene are hard to recycle, and can break into small pieces that scatter in the wind.
    — Tracy Loew, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
  • But there’re so many other fillers beside polystyrene, right?
    — Evan Moffitt, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The eateries will also eschew the use of polystyrene cups and plates, plastic take-out and beverage cups.
    — Michele Parente, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 May 2017
  • Some buildings were built of polystyrene, upon which artists drew fake facades.
    — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Already, in the past decade more than 60 nations have enacted some sort of ban on the use of polystyrene foam in things like cups and food packaging.
    — Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2024
  • The rest of the castle was crafted from polystyrene, which was covered in white fondant icing adorned with gold foliage.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The green, afloat on 104 concrete blocks filled with polystyrene foam, cost more than $2 million, said John Barlow, who supervised the project.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Neither is polystyrene foam (like that found in meat packaging).
    — Elena Shao, SFChronicle.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The disappearance of polystyrene is likely to be the first thing consumers notice.
    — Susanne Ruststaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022
  • After heavy rains, polystyrene items can be seen in storm drains and on beaches, where tiny pieces often end up in the and marine animals.
    — Priscella Vegastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2020
  • The city banned the single-use plastic bags before the state did, and the City Council last year approved a ban on the use of polystyrene coffee cups and take-out food containers.
    — Barbara Henry, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • So far, researchers have only explored this in mouse models, finding microplastics in the brains of mice fed polystyrene nanoparticles.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 31 May 2024
  • Abyssal microplastics appear to sink from the surface of the open ocean, and polystyrene particles increase the bioaccumulation of SSRIs in brine shrimp.
    — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024

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