How to Use ozone hole in a Sentence

ozone hole

noun
  • The Antarctic ozone hole is the smallest it’s been in decades.
    — Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Within just four years of the discovery of the thinning ozone hole, the agreement was in force.
    — National Geographic, 29 Apr. 2019
  • As such, few things could get my young heart racing more than news about that ominous real-life villain known as the ozone hole.
    — Lynn Johnson, National Geographic, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The ozone hole and acid rain were not fixed with the first international agreements on the table.
    — Hannah Ritchie, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The worry is that climate change and efforts to reduce the ozone hole get intertwined.
    — Seth Borenstein, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2022
  • One key factor was that the ozone hole endangered nearly everybody in the world.
    — Andrea Miotti, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The ozone hole tends to result in those winds being pushed outward from Antarctica.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2022
  • In October, the ozone hole over Antarctica grew to one of the largest on record.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Since then, scientists have been monitoring the size of the ozone hole, which is shrinking.
    — Don Lincoln, CNN, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The Antarctic ozone hole was the smallest it's ever been since its discovery.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 28 Dec. 2019
  • The hole will likely set a new benchmark for the largest ozone hole ever recorded in the North Pole.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020
  • But while the ozone hole is now in recovery, climate change may be having a similar effect.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The Arctic ozone hole is expected to heal and will likely disappear in the next month or so.
    — NBC News, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Climate change is affecting the winds, but so is the ozone hole and short-term cycles like El Nino.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 1 July 2019
  • The ozone hole is related to the Antarctic polar vortex, a band of swirling cold air that moves around the Earth.
    — Jeevan Ravindran, CNN, 16 Sep. 2021
  • But in March, a new hole opened in the ozone, this time on the other side of the world in the atmosphere above the Arctic. The hole will likely set a new benchmark for the largest ozone hole ever recorded in the North Pole.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020
  • The discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole in 1985 confirmed the threat.
    — Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • This agreement was highly effective—the ozone hole reached its peak size in 2006 and has been shrinking since then.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • Decades ago, lab work was enough to figure out the complex chemistry that was depleting the ozone hole, Cziczo says.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The annual ozone hole that forms over Antarctica has ballooned to near-record size, scientists say.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Every September, the ozone layer thins to form an ozone hole above Antarctica.
    — Eric Niiler, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Natural weather patterns in the Antarctic also affect ozone hole levels, which peak in the fall.
    — Seth Borenstein, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • But the remaining ozone hole over the Antarctic is highly volatile and depends on weather conditions.
    — Laura Millan Lombrana, Bloomberg.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The Antarctic ozone hole in the Southern Hemisphere is known for its yearly variations.
    — NBC News, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Your authors grew up in a time when school-children learned about the problems of an ozone hole, acid rain, and depleted tungsten supplies, not carbon emissions.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole did prove that CFCs have an effect on our atmosphere.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 6 July 2022
  • These events have likely contributed to the ozone hole over Antarctica staying open later into the year, the scientists write.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • In recent years, the warming trend has dampened, likely due in part to atmospheric changes caused by the recovery of the Antarctic ozone hole.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 5 Nov. 2020
  • The infamous ozone hole over Antarctica was discovered in the late 1970s.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2018
  • But now comes some very good news — in the form of satellite data showing that the worrisome ozone hole in the atmosphere over Antarctica is slowly healing.
    — David Freeman /, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2018

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