Undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities

Usage examples of pollution.

The eyes of every viewer panicked by retrovirus homophobic hysteria would be glued to the set, ready to see if the Democrats would endorse the pollution of their bodily fluids by lurking sodomites and junkies drooling contamination from every orifice.

The air was clear and fresh, without a trace of the smog and pollution that, according to Cap Marlinspike, had once made the city all but unlivable, before either of us was born.

Eventually, many of the polyethylene bags and plastic containers were screened out for burning, but almost nothing was known about what happens when plastics burn, and in fact most such polymerized substances simply evaporated, adding to the enormous load of air pollution, which by 1969 had reached the highest levels of the atmosphere from jet exhausts.

Germany possessed a deadly, delusional logic--the logic inherent in theories of scapegoating, racial exclusion, race purity, and cultural pollution.

Sleepy sailors, conscious of the problem of water pollution and trying to make it to the shoreside heads, were pursued into the stalls by men and women with tape recorders, notebooks, and cameras.

She is yoga-cross-legged, and she stares, with a look of stupefied wonder, at the garden and at the dawn breaking through wood-smoke haze and the thin gray-brown band of dust and pollution that hangs above the city of Lusaka.

Small amounts Of Pollution were already appearing within supp sed y airtight individual structures, indicating that, in the long run, the Plague could not be kept out, no matter how tightly sealed the cities became.

As a result of this, in time fewer commodities were manufactured and the use of natural resources and energy had diminished and there had been less and less pollution and today the rivers ran crystal to the sea and the air was clean and fresh and the land lay quite unpoisoned since agriculture had been moved indoors and no longer utilized the soil.

Instead of a place of camp and fellowship Leora saw conquest and slaughter, a place of barbaric feast, with bones and skulls buried beneath heather, despite this vista of quiet, unsmeared by industrial pollution.

It was something like an airlock, and it had been installed when the pollution and aeroplankton had gotten out of hand some time ago.

Much of the pollution was aeroplankton shells ballooning on their cubic millimeters of hydrogen.

By this aestheticizing, Jack misses the more relevant loop of production, consumption, and pollution that have created the very chemical spill that may cause the death he seeks to block from his thoughts.

Meanwhile, Castle launched a frontal assault on the water problem by cracking down on industrial pollution, enforcing compliance with laws already on the books to eliminate poisonous industrial discharges into rivers and streams, and successfully lobbying for laws that gave tax credits to factories that installed antipollution and water-recycling equipment.

I used to nick people for pollution, breaching research guidelines, illegal biomaterials, that sort of thing.

While Tamara went into the forest to gather wildflowers for the blue vase that stood in the meditation room, he set out the candelabra and burned incense, the marvellously pungent buddhi sticks that cleansed the air of positive ions, dirt, noxious chemicals, or any sort of gaseous pollution.