contaminate

How To Use contaminate In A Sentence

• If a person drank water contaminated to a level of 75,000 picocuries per liter for an entire year, they would receive an internal radiation dose of about 16 mrem, which is far below the natural variations in the average annual dose of 360 mrem in the US. Atomic Insights Blog
• The authorities had been allowed to "contaminate" the results, ANC Daily News Briefing
• Unless the circulating nurse is in a sterile gown, the instrument tray can be contaminated by unsterile clothing.
• The discharge of sewage water into the river severely contaminates the river with coliform bacteria.
• The residents of Mufulira that number about 800,000 are scared to drink the tap water for it could be contaminated. Water Contamination Scare in Zambia
• Yet at the other end of the bay, away from the town and its sewage outlets, the water is virtually uncontaminated.
• The river was contaminated with waste.
• The buried valve allowing them to drain and avoid freezing can allow bacterially contaminated water to be drawn into the riser pipe leading to the hydrant.
• It may also by carried by dust and long grass contaminated by infected animals so if one beast develops the condition, the others should be moved out of that pasture.
• Then as if it might contaminate him he let it fall sideways into the bed of pine needles. THE WHITE DOVE