How to Use smoggy in a Sentence

smoggy

adjective
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  • Some hope to ride out their days cashing paychecks in the smoggy sunset.
    — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 27 June 2019
  • In the distance, candle-like minarets mark the extent of the historic Old City, laid out 1,050 years ago; ahead, the Pyramids of Giza are lost in the smoggy heat of the evening.
    — Anthony Sattin, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Once the setting shifts to Europe, though, the film provides nothing but muted grays and somber, smoggy scenery.
    — Jon Niccum, kansascity.com, 31 May 2017
  • Before the index was public, even on smoggy days, my child ran around outdoors at school.
    — Didi Kirsten Tatlow, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2016
  • Mile after mile of two-, three- and four-story apartment buildings stretch to the smoggy horizon.
    — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Is there a noisy, smoggy freeway overpass next door or a gorgeous riverfront?
    — oregonlive, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Yet without firm action in Warsaw, Poles are in for more smoggy winters.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The people were kind and generous all over the country, but that experience in smoggy Mumbai changed me for the worse.
    — Jay Reddick, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 June 2017
  • By contrast, a smoggy sky that is closing in on you or a night sky that’s filled with pollution kind of weighs heavily on your consciousness.
    — Babak Tafreshi, National Geographic, 3 Apr. 2019
  • On the surrounding grounds, cornflowers, foxglove and lily of the valley will be in full force this month, and the air, even in smoggy London, will be scented with apple blossom.
    — Joanna Pocock, latimes.com, 13 May 2018
  • Pretty soon, the whole town becomes one big Thneed factory — and then falls into smoggy ruin when the last Truffula tree is toppled.
    — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 June 2018
  • For all of this month, New Delhi’s persistent smoggy woes have disrupted life in the Indian capital, enforced school closures and raised health alarms all over the world.
    — Sanaya Chandar, Quartz India, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Videos of him speaking Mandarin have gone viral, as did a photo of him jogging on a dangerously smoggy day through Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
    — Paul Mozur, The Seattle Times, 11 Aug. 2017
  • The particles also blew east, resulting in smoggy, scarlet sunsets over the Midwest and Northeast.
    — Purbita Saha, Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The effect of air pollution will be more clearly seen in the next few months, as north India enters its traditionally smoggy winter.
    — Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar, Science | AAAS, 29 Oct. 2020
  • California started setting its stricter pollution standards more than four decades ago to clean up its smoggy skies.
    — Orange County Register, 24 Mar. 2017
  • From Waiyaki Way highway, a smoggy blanket is visible hanging over downtown Nairobi’s tall buildings, and pockets of trees along the road are covered with traffic soot.
    — Kagondu Njagi, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2018
  • SOAs are a major component of fine particulate matter, the tiny particles in the air that reduce visibility and cause a smoggy haze when levels are high.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The Los Angeles basin was a seasonal wetland beset by tectonic forces, annually cleansed by hot wind and fire and overtopped by a smoggy inversion layer long before the Spaniards moved in on the Tongva.
    — Wired, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The city fills out and up, seemingly insatiable, nibbling into surrounding farmland and poking higher and higher into the smoggy highland sky.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 July 2017
  • On a vacant grassy lot squeezed between several smoggy highways lies the property where Colombia’s government hopes to build a large museum paying homage to victims of the country’s long civil conflict.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Smog wars: Southern California has seen a resurgence of dirty air in the last few years, one that has sharpened the divide between wealthier coastal enclaves with cleaner air and lower-income inland communities with smoggy air.
    — Julia Wick, latimes.com, 6 July 2019
  • Perhaps the very first processes, the first primordial mixings needed to spark life, are already underway beneath the smoggy nitrogen atmosphere.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 11 Sep. 2017
  • With the country lashed by oil spills, mounting levels of pesticides, smoggy skies and polluted waters, a fuse had been lit on America's environmental consciousness.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2020
  • The Voyager probes couldn’t pierce the thick smoggy veil of Titan’s nitrogen and methane atmosphere decades earlier, but scientists were intrigued by its chemical composition.
    — Charlie Wood, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Sep. 2017
  • Long-term exposure to polluted air has been compared to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, and children who grow up in a smoggy environment can face serious developmental and other health problems.
    — Swati Gupta and Sugam Pokharel, CNN, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Geely has a history of combating China's notoriously smoggy air with in-car filtration systems.
    — Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, 3 Mar. 2020
  • 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.
    — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Trump’s envisioning a Pittsburgh in which unemployed steelworkers and coal miners wander the streets under smoggy skies, begging for deliverance from the vagaries of the international economy.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 1 June 2017
  • As the world’s biggest source of carbon emissions, China is rightly notorious for apocalyptically smoggy skies and toxic waterways.
    — Crystal Reid, Popular Mechanics, 12 June 2019

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