How to Use incinerator in a Sentence

incinerator

noun
  • One side of the room had an iron gate that opened to an incinerator.
    — John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
  • And the third is for mixed waste that’ll wind up in an incinerator.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Once the gate is charged, Rogue can send him straight to the incinerator.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 7 June 2024
  • Neither is the uphill path to pick a site for a new incinerator.
    — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
  • In our backyard was an incinerator made of concrete with an iron door.
    — Julia Wick, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
  • Colbourne promises the city won’t give up on its fight against the trash incinerator.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2025
  • As the train passed what looked like an incinerator, there was the smell of burning trash and a massive plume of smoke.
    — David Culver, CNN, 11 May 2023
  • That is propelling more cities to send their trash to the incinerator.
    — Saabira Chaudhuri, WSJ, 10 June 2020
  • The rest goes to landfills, the ocean or incinerators.
    — Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Johnson said the city wants to install a centrifuge to process waste oil from boats for the incinerator.
    — Christina McDermott, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • So many priests abused young men and women, who gave birth to children who were often thrown in an incinerator.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The faulty incinerator plant hasn’t been improved in at least 20 years.
    — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Six out of eight of the city's incinerators were in Black neighborhoods.
    — Yessenia Funes, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Smoke from a nearby garbage incinerator rises in plumes.
    — Kyra Morris, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The more that happens, the more plastic that ends up going to landfills or incinerators.
    — Elena Shao, SFChronicle.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Why not just pack tons of trash into a rocket and shoot it into the sun, the ultimate incinerator?
    — David Pescovitz, WIRED, 1 Jan. 1997
  • Men in hazmat suits arrive, transporting his corpse to an incinerator, where his body is burned.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Mar. 2026
  • In 2012, the nation’s largest trash incinerator was planned to be built less than a mile from a high school.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2020
  • The trend comes as the media companies pull back on their streaming cash incinerators.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • But this still means that most paper and plastic bags wind up in a landfill or, to a lesser extent, in an incinerator.
    — Rachel Nuwer, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2025
  • At the time, the family’s efforts had stopped more than a ton of plastic from ending up in incinerators.
    — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Some had been found in tubs at the incinerator and some at the Bio Care facility.
    — Author: Brian Grow, John Shiffman, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The incinerator is designed to burn the waste until it is reduced to a fine, black ash before it is taken to a landfill.
    — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Stericycle has since abandoned the move and is expected to close the incinerator in the next year or two.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Jan. 2021
  • In other words, the incinerator can't close down without notice.
    — Alex Kuffner, The Providence Journal, 3 Mar. 2026
  • About two-thirds of those credits went to the two incinerators in Maryland, and one third went to Virginia.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The incinerator shrinks the garbage by 75% and Goodwald tries to make a buck by shrinking the leftover ash.
    — Star Tribune, 20 Sep. 2020
  • The dog’s body was put in a red bag and sent to the incinerator — the final destination for an untold number of beagles.
    — Lizzie Johnson, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The dog’s body was put in a red bag and sent to the incinerator - the final destination for an untold number of beagles.
    — Lizzie Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2022
  • An old garbage incinerator in the woods of Devou Park has been tied to several ghost stories over the years.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 28 Oct. 2022

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