How to Use smog in a Sentence

smog

noun
  • Light shone through the brown smog.
    — CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026
  • On a film shoot, smog meant lost time and money.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
  • When smog and ozone levels spike, our homes should be a place to take refuge.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Everything was brand-new to me and the air was thick with smog.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Blast furnaces cranked out profits, steel coils and thick smog.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 19 Aug. 2023
  • For weeks, my small town has been blighted by a thick, toxic smog.
    — Chris Rush, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Clearly, there may be fits and starts as the world fights its smog problem.
    — Dave Levitan, Scientific American, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Wildflowers hadn’t bloomed yet, many trails were still closed and smog was at its worst.
    — Adam H. Graham, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2022
  • The fresh air, zero smog and great views have a healing power.
    — Lyndsey Matthews, House Beautiful, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Some gave up and said the only solution to smog was a good strong wind.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The weather has been perfect, the skies blue, the smog lifted.
    — Leila Gharagozlou, CNN Money, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The smog leads to watery eyes, migraines, and lung and heart diseases.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 22 Nov. 2021
  • However, by this point our eyes and lungs were on fire from the gray haze of both the smog and heat.
    — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Ground-level smog contains ozone, which is the main health concern.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 12 Apr. 2022
  • But there could still be some skyline-covering smog along the lakeshore.
    — Jack Albright, jsonline.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • That year, smog was responsible for a third of all deaths in the country.
    — David Wallace-Wells, Daily Intelligencer, 9 July 2017
  • That smog can have far-reaching consequences.
    — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Their patients were moving away because of the smog, and the doctors were telling them to go.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Once upon a time, the air was thick with smog and soot from industry lining the city’s rivers.
    — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 2 June 2017
  • His question hung in the air like the kind of smog that used to drift down from the Mainland and choke them.
    — Gish Jen, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
  • But smog anywhere was smog everywhere.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Uncertainty hung over this season like a layer of smog over a mid-tier city.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The green house gas rating is a 9, and the smog rating is a 6, both out of 10.
    — Tony Leopardo, Mercury News, 9 June 2025
  • But out here between the smog and the concrete, a seed spliced with Google genes has found fertile soil.
    — Matt Sheehan, WIRED, 13 Aug. 2019
  • But Gordy, put off by the low-hanging smog, wondered aloud about these houses up in the clear air.
    — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Formaldehyde is a common pollutant that adds to ozone smog and harms human health.
    — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 31 May 2026
  • Last year, a dozen people were charged with using and selling a smog-check cheating device.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The greenhouse gas rating is 5 and the smog rating is 5; both out of 10.
    — Tony Leopardo, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Watching the Giants wander through smog for nine innings did feel like a good metaphor, though.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The greenhouse gas rating is a 5 and the smog rating is a 6; both out of 10.
    — Tony Leopardo, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'smog.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: