How to Use smog in a Sentence

smog

noun
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  • Phillips’ loose lines and florid style evoke the smog-washed haze of the ‘80s.
    — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
  • The greenhouse gas rating is 5 and the smog rating is 5; both out of 10.
    — Tony Leopardo, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The greenhouse gas rating is a 7 and the smog rating is a 7; both out of 10.
    — Tony Leopardo, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The greenhouse gas rating is a 5, and the smog rating is a 7, both out of 10.
    — Tony Leopardo, The Mercury News, 29 May 2024
  • His question hung in the air like the kind of smog that used to drift down from the Mainland and choke them.
    — Gish Jen, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
  • However, by this point our eyes and lungs were on fire from the gray haze of both the smog and heat.
    — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2022
  • German native first thought the state’s smog was just fog.
    — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 July 2022
  • The smog leads to watery eyes, migraines, and lung and heart diseases.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Polluting states want the Supreme Court to pause Biden's plan to reduce smog.
    — USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
  • More:Can face masks protect from wildfire smoke and smog?
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 30 June 2023
  • Wildflowers hadn’t bloomed yet, many trails were still closed and smog was at its worst.
    — Adam H. Graham, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2022
  • No wonder the super-rich don’t tend to stop and smell the roses: The sky is blanketed in smog.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 3 May 2023
  • But Gordy, put off by the low-hanging smog, wondered aloud about these houses up in the clear air.
    — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Blast furnaces cranked out profits, steel coils and thick smog.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 19 Aug. 2023
  • And that’s going to be a problem because there will be no storms to clear out the smog/haze in northern Utah.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Ground-level smog contains ozone, which is the main health concern.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Vog is a term that refers to volcanic smog, state officials say.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Winds flow up and down the mountainsides like tides, sweeping away and returning the smog.
    — Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The severity of the year-long pollution stares in the face during winters in the form of toxic smog.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2021
  • The smog in Delhi is so severe now that authorities have shut down schools in the city.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The Flats, once dense with factories and smog in the mid-1900s, looks nothing like its polluted past.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 14 Mar. 2022
  • More than 100 million people live in counties that get an F for ozone smog, the report says.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Maybe that’s from growing up in New York City, and really being around dirt and smog.
    — Jamie Kravitz, Woman's Day, 30 June 2022
  • From right, Vehicles drive along a highway as smog lingers over Salt Lake City.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Back then, the skyway was often enveloped in smog and always smelled.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The white marble of the Taj Mahal, which is normally wrapped in smog, shone brightly against an azure sky.
    — Tim De Chant, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2022
  • If the heat, the altitude and the passionate fans at Mexico’s iconic fortress home don’t get you, the smog will.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022
  • There was a time when L.A. was submerged in a thick layer of smog that made people afraid to leave their homes, Martinez said.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The pollutant causes smog and is linked to asthma, lung disease and premature death.
    — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 2 July 2024
  • Ground-level ozone, often referred to as smog, is a surface pollutant that’s caused by vehicle exhaust and industrial emissions getting trapped by a high-pressure dome.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 4 June 2024

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