How to Use carbon in a Sentence

carbon

noun
  • Some states add a carbon tax as well.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Trees are about half carbon by dry weight.
    — John P. O’Brien, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • And yes, then there's that carbon-tube body.
    — New Atlas, 1 June 2026
  • Browns are full of carbon and will keep things from smelling bad.
    — Jessica Damiano, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • At the center of it all is the carbon bridge frame.
    — New Atlas, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Our forests, oceans, and soils can capture and store vast amounts of this carbon.
    — Time, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The lipids used to make fats and the cell membrane are built up two carbons at a time.
    — ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Healthier, carbon-rich soil helps a lawn do more than stay green.
    — Dr. Avishesh Neupane, Hartford Courant, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The brakes are carbon-ceramic, and the wheels are lighter in weight.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The study found that fishing boats were the biggest source of black carbon.
    — CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Still, the soil continued to emit carbon for months.
    — Siddhant Pusdekar, Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2026
  • And what if man invents a way to take carbon out of the air, with some sort of machine?
    — Arkansas Online, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The landscape could hold as much as 118 tons of carbon per acre.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • There is three times more carbon stored in the topsoil of the earth than all the trees and plants combined.
    — CBS News, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Trump himself has long torpedoed the very idea of a carbon tax.
    — Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The Flow Country’s great carbon sink stretched out to the south.
    — WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Cap-and-trade is a policy that puts a price on carbon emissions.
    — Calmatters, Oc Register, 11 Sep. 2025
  • This is being viewed as a big step in the sport's push to become carbon neutral.
    — Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025
  • All carbon atoms have six protons and all oxygen atoms have eight protons.
    — Kelling Donald, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
  • States that didn’t draft their own plans would be entered into a carbon market.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 30 June 2022
  • Some studies suggest that biochar can lock in carbon for hundreds of years.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2026
  • There is a pledge to be carbon neutral by 2030.
    — Jemima Sissons, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Livestock pastures with trees have been shown to hold more carbon than open pasture lands.
    — Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Modern carbon-fiber composite wings are made to bend rather than break.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026
  • That limitation has capped how much carbon plants can lock away.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • And since sheep run on grass, not gas, their grazing helps reduce carbon emissions.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • And this is the world's first road-legal bike to come with carbon-ceramic brake discs.
    — New Atlas, 4 Apr. 2026
  • But when fields are worked with heavy machinery, their soils leach carbon back into the air.
    — Jasmin Sykes, CNN Money, 19 June 2026

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