How to Use carbonize in a Sentence

carbonize

verb
  • As your bread is carbonizing, assess your fridge for toppings.
    — Maggie Lange, Bon Appetit, 24 May 2017
  • Until the power grid is de-carbonized, even that benefit isn't too great.
    — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Burned so badly they were carbonized, the scrolls are extremely fragile.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
  • So continued declines in battery prices over the next decade will be a huge help as the world tries to de-carbonize, too.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The outer layer is often an aramid fiber like Nomex, which carbonizes rather than melting in heat.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Yet the tremendous volcanic heat and gases spewed by Vesuvius carbonized the scrolls, turning them black and hard like lumps of coal.
    — Henrik Knudsen, Smithsonian, 26 June 2018
  • When the Nomex suit encounters intense heat, its fibers thicken and carbonize, absorbing heat energy.
    — Cory Graff, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2021
  • In the new study, scientists converted chitin into an ultralight aerogel and then carbonized it to form a porous carbon framework.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 31 Dec. 2025
  • In excavations some two millenniums later, the loaves finally came out of the oven — carbonized, but with their shape and texture intact.
    — Meara Sharma, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2019
  • The scrolls’ unique state of preservation is due to the hot gases of Vesuvius, which carbonized the scrolls’ exterior but left many of them readable inside.
    — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 21 June 2019
  • Can California, home to the world’s sixth-largest economy, essentially de-carbonize its entire electric grid in the space of 28 years?
    — Rob Nikolewski, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 June 2017
  • Major institutional investors are also trying to de-carbonize their portfolios.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Researchers have deciphered at least 20 columns of text from a papyrus scroll charred and carbonized by the Mount Vesuvius eruption nearly 2,000 years ago.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Biden's call for a massive expansion of electric vehicle charging stations and other infrastructure that would help de-carbonize the single largest sector of the economy contributing to global warming.
    — Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2021
  • They were carbonized in the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, entombed underground for more than a millennium and discovered 267 years ago — the pages of papyrus fused together like rings of an oak.
    — Washington Post, 2 July 2019
  • If de-carbonizing energy production is the greatest challenge to humanity, nuclear, which generates roughly the same carbon output per energy unit as solar panels and windmills, will be a major part of the solution.
    — Charles R. Morris, WSJ, 21 June 2018
  • In a major breakthrough, researchers announced that at least 20 columns of text from a papyrus scroll charred and carbonized by the Mount Vesuvius explosion nearly 2,000 years ago were successfully deciphered using machine-learning methods.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019

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