How to Use desalinate in a Sentence

desalinate

verb
  • The company is building a plant that will desalinate seawater.
  • They were forced to stop for a week in the Azores when their water desalinating equipment broke.
    — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • It could also be used to produce hydrogen or desalinate water.
    — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The displaced water, meanwhile, can be put to good use—assuming it can be desalinated.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2014
  • For starters, the seawater would have to be desalinated since salt would probably affect the physics and behavior of the ice.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 20 July 2019
  • Maybe that guy will build the fastest car on Earth, or design a new way to desalinate seawater to slake the world’s thirst, or find a way into space on his own.
    — David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 30 Aug. 2020
  • The country has large reserves of oil and natural gas, and uses gas to desalinate water from the Gulf of Oman.
    — Ian James, azcentral, 28 Nov. 2019
  • This could be used to desalinate some of the saltwater and turn the southern Negev Desert into lush agricultural land.
    — Big Think, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Polhemus said the costs for purifying wastewater will probably be about half those of desalinating ocean water.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Malik said the team connected fire hoses that spanned 500 yards, from the ocean to a desalinating unit near the clinic that purified the water.
    — Elaine Chen, chicagotribune.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The base that today houses 6,000 people makes all its own electricity and desalinates its own water.
    — Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 12 Dec. 2011
  • Drinking water needs to be desalinated, which is accomplished by desalination plants across Gaza, aid workers say.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • On board, one device would use the electricity to desalinate seawater and pass the fresh water to electrolyzers to produce hydrogen.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 12 July 2018
  • The material can be used to create flexible electronics and to purify or desalinate water.
    — Kevin Wyss, The Conversation, 29 Nov. 2022
  • California also hosts about 20 brackish water plants which can desalinate slightly salty water from rivers, aqueducts and other sources.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Low-grade heat is a potential energy source around the world, including to desalinate seawater without outside energy.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Nov. 2019
  • This flow of water could generate hydroelectricity, too, which could be used to desalinate some of the seawater into freshwater.
    — Big Think, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Local authorities are trucking in water and desalinating seawater, but the supply is less than half the city’s basic requirement.
    — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 28 June 2019
  • The wood will be desalinated for preservation and then examined closely for things like cut marks, engravings and other signs of the ancient people who constructed it millennia ago.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Surface water and dependable power would make pumping, desalinating and treating the water possible.
    — Daniel Wolfe, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The plant would desalinate the water, probably using reverse osmosis, a common filtering technique.
    — Rob L. Evans, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
  • The cannon was taken to a conservation lab at the Washington Navy Yard to be desalinated and stabilized.
    — Jennifer McDermott, The Seattle Times, 3 June 2017
  • One of them, according to the government’s outline, will focus on studying the potential for desalinating seawater from the Sea of Cortez.
    — USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2017
  • But in recent years officials have talked about the coming need for direct recycling of drinking water as well, and about buying into a plant to desalinate seawater in Mexico.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Whenever the price of other water goes up, desalinating Pacific waters becomes more enticing.
    — Thomas D. Elias, Orange County Register, 7 Mar. 2017
  • All these wonders — plus plants to desalinate the water needed to green its desert dunes and air condition its interiors — fuel Dubai's voracious appetite for electricity.
    — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Virtually all of Israel’s drinking water is desalinated.
    — Big Think, 17 Oct. 2025
  • An international team of engineers collaborated on a device that uses solar power not to harvest water, but to purify and desalinate it.
    — Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2019
  • Intel, for instance, is targeting net positive water use globally by 2030, in part based on plans to desalinate and treat seawater and rainwater.
    — Rebecca Heilweil, WIRED, 19 July 2023
  • The Navy put in artificial turf at Cooper Field, the outdoor sports complex, to save on the fuel for desalinating water for the baseball diamond and soccer pitch .
    — Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 12 Dec. 2011

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