How to Use methane in a Sentence

methane

noun
  • What that creates is a methane gas.
    — Alexa Liacko, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
  • But that process comes with methane emissions and waste runoff.
    — Alana Semuels, Time, 1 June 2026
  • More than three-quarters of that methane came from stoves that were turned off.
    — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Natural gas drilling sites are one of the main sources of methane leaks.
    — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 July 2021
  • Most plastics are derived from crude oil, methane gas, or coal.
    — By Aryn Baker/lautoka, Fiji , TIME, 3 July 2024
  • Together, those sources would be the world's fourth-largest methane source.
    — Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
  • That also means that the system does not produce as much methane.
    — The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Well, the methane part turns out to be worrying for climate change.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The ice has a quarter-size hole, maintained by a stream of methane bubbles.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Cold seeps are areas where methane and chemicals leak from the seafloor.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2026
  • KivuWatt currently siphons the methane from the depths of the killer lake.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The methane forms rivers, lakes, and small seas on Titan’s surface.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Crews have also detected methane gas from the well.
    — Michele Gile, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025
  • So, in the far north of the world, the soils store a lot of carbon, and there's methane underground.
    — CBS News, 9 July 2023
  • Once on the methane moon, they were finally shown exactly what the job was.
    — Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Over billions of years this has formed a layer of methane ice many kilometers thick in places.
    — Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
  • But the real blast of energy comes from deeper methane and heat.
    — New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2025
  • With the last option, methane is produced that can be captured and burned as a power source.
    — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
  • But the gas supply chain is riddled with methane leaks and routine flaring.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 12 Jan. 2022
  • We are being gaslit by the methane industry.
    — Susan Moynihan, Hartford Courant, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The idea is to make sure organics don’t wind up in landfills and boost methane emissions.
    — Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Rice paddies emit methane and nitrous oxide from wet or flooded soils.
    — Hanqin Tian, Fortune, 25 May 2026
  • Rice paddies emit methane and nitrous oxide from wet or flooded soils.
    — Hanqin Tian, The Conversation, 22 May 2026
  • Plugging methane leaks is not just good for the health of Earth’s climate system.
    — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Footage shows a number of vents releasing methane straight into the air.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
  • At a landfill, the food piles up, rots, and releases toxic methane gas.
    — Danielle Bernabe, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2022
  • And methane emissions aren’t the only hazard that stem from the landfill.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The two sides agreed to work together to curb methane emissions, protect forests, and phase out coal.
    — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The methane absorbs red light and reflects blue and green, lending the planet a pale sea-green hue.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Huge amounts of methane lie in reservoirs that have formed over millennia beneath the seafloor around the world.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025

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