smog

Example Sentences

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Typically, sales of the gas are restricted during the summer due to the volatility of ethanol and its contribution to smog, but the Farm Bureau maintains that new studies show the blend is non-polluting.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

The economy, the outdoors, our culture, and our pride in this place — the plague of smog didn’t just change our character, it became a character in our lives, and a miserable one too.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

And now, to fuel the war effort, the big smokestacks on those big oil refineries were sending out big black plumes of gunk — and that had to be creating the smog, right?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Smoglandia is a four-part series on L.A.’s historic battle with smog.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

I asked myself as I hurried home amid choking smog and a fear of tsotsis, “in thinking that I could ever be like him? Or am I simply dreaming?”

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane