How to Use carbon in a Sentence

carbon

noun
  • The Flow Country’s great carbon sink stretched out to the south.
    — WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
  • It’s scheduled to open in 2029 and will emit zero carbon from the start.
    — TIME, 20 May 2024
  • Our forests, oceans, and soils can capture and store vast amounts of this carbon.
    — Time, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The carbon filter removes up to 99.7 percent of smoke, dust, and pet dander.
    — Ellen McAlpine, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2023
  • The shortness of the journey both reduces carbon emissions and ensures the herbs stay fresh.
    — Outside Online, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The fire spewed nearly four times the carbon emissions as airplanes do in a year, study authors said.
    — CBS News, 27 June 2024
  • The shift, known as the Merge, will save huge amounts of energy and prevent carbon from spewing into the air.
    — Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022
  • The rest of the world averaged a 1.7% carbon pollution jump.
    — Time, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The current plan to avoid this fate is to reduce net carbon emissions to zero within the next 20 years.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
  • In the case of graphene, which consists only of carbon, the bonds are all in the same plane, meaning the molecule is as thick as a carbon atom.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The rums are mixed, carbon filtered, and then rested in French oak casks for a smooth rum that's redolent of vanilla and caramel with just a hint of spice.
    — Lauren Hubbard, townandcountrymag.com, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Brazil—and, by extension, the planet that depends on the Amazon as a carbon sink—seems to be at a turning point.
    — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
  • On the path to carbon zero across the whole business, there's a lot of invention that's still going to need to happen.
    — Ayesha Javed, TIME, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Livestock pastures with trees have been shown to hold more carbon than open pasture lands.
    — Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
  • States that didn’t draft their own plans would be entered into a carbon market.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 30 June 2022
  • State of play: One of the biggest fights is over Initiative 2117, which would repeal the state's cap-and-trade law that places a price on carbon emissions.
    — Melissa Santos, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The best way to wean the economy off burning carbon for energy is to put a tax on carbon.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
  • At the plant Just changing how corn is grown won’t lower the carbon intensity of ethanol enough.
    — Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2024
  • As with all Priority bikes, the Current comes with a carbon drive belt first used in autos rather than a chain.
    — Nathan Borchelt, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Best of all, all of the boxes are carbon neutral, the company says, and one tree is planted for each box ordered.
    — Raena Loper, Good Housekeeping, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Krill swarms play a vital role in the food chain and in cycling atmospheric carbon into the depths of the Southern Ocean.
    — Andrew Chapman, Scientific American, 21 June 2022
  • Mountain bikes, carbon-fiber race bikes, children’s bikes — all gone.
    — Michael Corkery Andres Kudacki, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Mountain bikes, carbon-fiber race bikes, children’s bikes — all gone.
    — Michael Corkery, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2022
  • The Australia project is by far the biggest in her low-carbon business portfolio.
    — Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, 14 June 2022
  • And while that post didn't calculate the carbon emissions of such training runs, others have done so.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The event has done the one thing such confabs are supposed never to do, which is expose the truth about climate change and the race to net-zero carbon emissions.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
  • This forest type holds back much less water and stores much less carbon, which are key to slowing climate change.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2023
  • The rich and powerful do love to flock to Davos in their carbon-emitting private jets to discuss climate change.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 20 Jan. 2023
  • With the rise of demand for clean energy, nuclear power is poised for a major comeback as an energy source without any carbon emissions.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2025
  • This will play a vital role in supporting China’s efforts to transition to low-carbon energy, helping reduce emissions while meeting the country’s growing power demands with reliable, sustainable sources.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2025

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