How to Use petrochemical in a Sentence

petrochemical

noun
  • About one-fifth of the fees flow from the petrochemical side.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 14 July 2022
  • High oil prices stand to drive up the cost of petrochemicals, which is what plastics are made of.
    — Robert Ferris, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026
  • And none of the petrochemicals used to make pleather or vegan leather.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2017
  • So how much of the world's petrochemicals supply is now in danger?
    — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Our region made the misstep of putting too many eggs in the shale and the petrochemical basket.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Those are strong words for a man who was running a petrochemical company.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 31 July 2023
  • By 2010, most of the petrochemical plants had closed.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 May 2026
  • The producers of many petrochemicals have been aware of the risks, such as birth defects, for decades.
    — Gerald Markowitz, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • On Friday, a huge fire broke out at one of the petrochemical plants across the highway from their home.
    — Eric Lipton, New York Times, 5 May 2023
  • The truth is that there is no safe way to color hair because the dye pigments are derived from petrochemicals.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • At least 10 large petrochemical plants are also close to the water.
    — I Made Sentana, WSJ, 25 Dec. 2018
  • It's also used to make petrochemicals and plastics.
    — Npr Staff, NPR, 7 Apr. 2026
  • People have seen this painting as a metaphor for global warming, or for how petrochemicals have come back to bite us in the ass.
    — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2017
  • The state is home to the world’s largest petrochemical complex, which turns oil and gas and its byproducts into plastics.
    — Sean McLain, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Corpus Christi is one of the nation's largest petrochemical hubs.
    — Benjamin Wermund, Houston Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Most of what these two countries trade falls under the category of oil and petrochemicals, or that of gems.
    — Alex Travelli, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The petrochemical industry is a key sector in many Gulf states.
    — Garrett Downs,azhar Sukri, CNBC, 5 Apr. 2026
  • With the plan comes the chance to lead by example in the nation’s petrochemical corridor.
    — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2022
  • Many of the suburbs in the area have a heavy presence of petrochemical facilities.
    — David Phillip and Sean Murphy, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Congress needs to put a pause on the race to construct more petrochemical facilities.
    — Judith Enck, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Many of the area’s steel plants have disappeared, but various petrochemical concerns have arisen in their place.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2024
  • There's no shortage of petrochemical companies that want to be part of the shift to gasoline that can wear a carbon-neutral badge.
    — Hazel Southwell, Ars Technica, 5 May 2023
  • And a few hours later, a chlorine gas leak sickened dozens at a petrochemical complex in southeast Iran.
    — Ramin Mostaghim, Andrew Carey and Oren Liebermann, CNN, 6 July 2020
  • In the early 1990s, a sprawling petrochemical plant went up there.
    — Lam Yik Fei Tiffany May, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • That could also affect the cost of products made from natural gas, such as petrochemical feedstock.
    — Cathy Bussewitz, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • That could also affect the cost of products made from natural gas, such as petrochemical feedstock.
    — ABC News, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Zeldin’s plans are a gift to the fossil fuel and petrochemical corporations.
    — Cynthia Palmer, Time, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Even companies that don't directly need steel or petrochemical products have contracts with those that do.
    — ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Even companies that don’t directly need steel or petrochemical products have contracts with those that do.
    — Amir-Hussein Radjy, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Synthetic fabrics, such as polyester, nylon and acrylic, are made from petrochemical feedstocks.
    — André O. Hudson, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026

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