How to Use ozone layer in a Sentence

ozone layer

noun
  • The ozone layer is now healing.
    — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • That keeps the hole in the ozone layer on track to shrink over the coming decades.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 16 May 2018
  • For the most part, nature can render holes in the ozone layer.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The earth’s ozone layer is on track to repair itself in four decades.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 10 Jan. 2023
  • There used to be people who cared about owls, and people who cared about the ozone layer.
    — Time, 4 Oct. 2022
  • And that last point is now having a lasting impact on our ozone layer.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2023
  • That reactive ruckus is what causes the hole in the ozone layer.
    — J. Besl, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2023
  • The goal was for the telescope to detect the Earth’s ozone layer.
    — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Much like acid rain, the hole in the ozone layer caused governments to take action.
    — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 22 July 2022
  • The world came together to protect the ozone layer.
    — Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Time, 20 Jan. 2026
  • And second, aluminum oxide could damage and even rip a new hole in the ozone layer.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2021
  • Thanks to a legally binding agreement to phase them out, the ozone layer is now healing.
    — Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Greenhouse gases are thinning out the ozone layer, and our skin is starting to pay the price.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Sulfur dioxide, for example, could eat away at the ozone layer or cause acid rain.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 21 Mar. 2018
  • In the case of the ozone layer, the economic trade-offs were minimal.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2019
  • That’s not to say human intervention hasn’t helped the ozone layer.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Nov. 2017
  • That’s light that’s gone through Earth’s ozone layer, which absorbs red light and allows blue light to pass through it.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 21 May 2021
  • The ozone layer is responding by healing.
    — Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The ozone layer is a thin blanket in the stratosphere made of molecules with three oxygen atoms.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • Researchers are also waiting to find out if the swirling, ashen cloud did lasting damage to the ozone layer.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2020
  • The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica has trickle-down effects on winds.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Things might be looking better for the ozone layer, but there is still a big climate problem that needs to be addressed.
    — Megesh Tiwari, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The ozone layer could also deplete by as much as 32%, according to the study.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
  • There’s a hole in the ozone layer; a Saudi prince has bought Howard Johnson’s.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The idea that a wet-to-dry hair tool can cause no damage is just as unbelievable as the idea that the ozone layer is healing.
    — Jesa Marie Calaor, Allure, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The ozone layer was on the wrong side of the boundary in the 1990s, Richardson said.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The once-shrinking ozone layer is on track to full recovery within the next century.
    — Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Cosmic radiation can thin the ozone layer and let in more UV light.
    — New Atlas, 10 May 2025
  • The layer of smoke in the atmosphere would destroy as much as 75 percent of the ozone layer.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Their research pointed to the rapidly growing hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 29 Sep. 2023

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