How to Use greenwashing in a Sentence

greenwashing

noun
  • In fact, this is vital in tackling the spread of greenwashing.
    — Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Don’t be a victim of greenwashing.
    — James Brewer, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Earth Day is also when the greenwashing of my email inbox is the worst.
    — Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2022
  • No longer should that industry be given a get-out-of-jail-free card on its mealy-mouthed greenwashing.
    — Lydia Millet, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2020
  • There are a lot of reusable produce bags on the market—and a lot of greenwashing.
    — Urmila Ramakrishnan, Bon Appétit, 28 July 2022
  • But even if that’s not the case, do the inflated numbers on the display count as greenwashing?
    — Alden Wicker, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Delta’s greenwashing lawsuit should serve as a wake-up call for introspection and change.
    — Gagan Levy, Treehugger, 6 July 2023
  • But sadly some companies have done it for the wrong reasons - greenwashing.
    — World Economic Forum, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Consumers care more and more, and greenwashing will no longer be tolerated.
    — Adrian Carr, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • But critics argue the offsets don’t reflect progress at all and instead are a new form of greenwashing.
    — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Right now, though, the tools for doing that are mostly being used for corporate greenwashing.
    — Stephen Lezak, The New Republic, 9 Nov. 2021
  • There are a lot of corporations out there that are doing a lot of signaling and greenwashing.
    — Heather Landy, Quartz, 15 Sep. 2021
  • So is the likelihood that you’ll—rightly—be accused of greenwashing.
    — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2023
  • And a lot of the time that's kind of cutting back on some of the greenwashing and making sure that the changes are actually real.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • So there’s the prospect of greenwashing — wineries making claims on their labels that consumers have no way to verify.
    — Washington Post, 9 July 2021
  • Hydrocarbon sponsorships are pure-grade greenwashing and have no place in the climate change era.
    — Jules Boykoff, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2022
  • It is now poised to announce its own fund disclosure requirements to address greenwashing.
    — Judy Samuelson, Quartz, 13 June 2023
  • Maybe greenwashing is a benefit.
    — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 22 May 2026
  • Those traits allow companies to demonstrate that their climate pledges and actions are real and not just a front for greenwashing.
    — Lily Hsueh, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Nobody honestly knows–and that leads to greenwashing and impunity.
    — Rodrigo Tavares, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • But the global offset market is plagued with shoddy accounting and greenwashing.
    — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 18 May 2021
  • Investors, at least, have a few more tools at their disposal to help weed out greenwashing claims than consumers do, including time and money.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 23 June 2023
  • And the company’s recent years of press releases have been an object lesson in greenwashing.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2020
  • But the subsidies are inflated and distortionary, even to the point of greenwashing, critics say.
    — The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
  • But … if a company is caught greenwashing, that does more damage and is more expensive to their brand than going out and telling the real story.
    — Simon Mainwaring, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
  • No amount of misleading greenwashing will earn a brand the distinctive new designation, though.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 22 July 2021
  • The fashion industry is a prime example - ‘greenwashing’ has long been a concern of consumers and rightly so.
    — Catherine Erdly, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • Some of these efforts felt like greenwashing, hiding behind the idea that more bikes equals less cars, regardless of the waste that our industry creates.
    — Brian Park, Outside Online, 30 Mar. 2023
  • To avoid dubious methods, corner-cutting and greenwashing, carbon storage will have to be held to high standards.
    — Klaus Lackner, The Conversation, 16 May 2023
  • Although the number of conscious brands has skyrocketed over the last decade, greenwashing has muddied the message.
    — Hbs Working Knowledge, Forbes, 21 June 2021

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