How to Use catalytic in a Sentence

catalytic

adjective
  • The milk seems to be catalytic.
    — John McPhee, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The grants come as theft of cars and catalytic converters is on the rise.
    — Star Tribune, 3 July 2021
  • In a perfect world, Westbrook is a catalytic force as a sixth man.
    — Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Six catalytic converters were found in a pile next to the fence, police said.
    — Madison Mercado, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Two of the three rare earth metals used in catalytic converters are worth more per ounce than gold.
    — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The man was trying to steal catalytic converters from the cars.
    — cleveland, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Non-catalytic stoves draw the woodsmoke through a series of baffles [Fig.
    — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2018
  • That is a kind of catalytic discovery for him that gets him out of his house and into action.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The gas is put through a catalytic process to break it down into carbon dioxide and water.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Which cars are most likely to have catalytic converters stolen?
    — Sam Burdette, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The theft of catalytic converters is a problem in other cities as well.
    — James E. Causey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2021
  • There are catalytic converters that can solve this problem, though.
    — Nicola Jones, Wired, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Grapevine has seen an increase in the theft of catalytic converters this year, police say.
    — Mary Grace Granados, Dallas News, 29 Dec. 2020
  • The catalytic filter is permanent and does not need to be replaced.
    — John R. Delaney, PC Magazine, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Cages can deter thieves, as can welding the catalytic converters to cars.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2021
  • No charges have been filed in connection with the catalytic converters.
    — cleveland, 12 Mar. 2021
  • In this case, the soil itself acts as the electrolyte—as well as source of the catalytic microbes, and as the source of the fuel.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2024
  • But the catalytic evil of the park has turned out to be something far less futuristic than the show’s premise would imply.
    — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 24 June 2018
  • The thefts of catalytic converters have occurred in numerous cities and towns across the state.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Michael said the biggest crime incidents had been some past thefts of catalytic converters.
    — Anne Ryman, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2022
  • During a search of the car, officers found two catalytic converters that had been cut off cars, and a sawzall.
    — cleveland, 21 July 2022
  • Yet his memory lives on as a catalytic moment in the then-emerging civil rights movement.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2020
  • Police did find catalytic converters during the search, but no one has been charged in connection with them.
    — David Williams, CNN, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The year 1919 was, in fact, a catalytic moment in the history of the West.
    — Joseph Loconte, WSJ, 27 June 2019
  • Williams also played a catalytic role in the Yankees changing their decades-old facial hair policy in the spring.
    — Gary Phillips, Hartford Courant, 27 Apr. 2025
  • To address the challenge the team developed a process based on a self-catalytic leaching mechanism.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Non-catalytic stoves draw the woodsmoke through a series of baffles (right side of the image) and employ a powerful draft to ignite the woodsmoke.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Thefts of catalytic converters are on the rise in San Antonio and across the country.
    — Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 11 June 2021
  • The owner of the company said someone cut off and stole catalytic converters from three of the company’s vans.
    — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2020
  • Rhodium is a rare metal that is used in automotive catalytic converters to meet strict emission norms and the price has surged over the past year.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 8 July 2021

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