How to Use uncontaminated in a Sentence

uncontaminated

adjective
  • When residents turn on their taps at home, the water flows out clean, uncontaminated, with no foul odor.
    — Trilce Estrada Olvera, The Arizona Republic, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Always use pure, uncontaminated wood ash and test your soil pH before adding.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Always use pure, uncontaminated wood ash and test your soil pH before adding.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The work is in preparation for city officials to put uncontaminated sand back on the shoreline.
    — Kathryn Varn, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Williams says the idea is to construct new habitat for fish and kelp in uncontaminated areas to build up healthy populations of fish.
    — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2021
  • If the person was to ever go missing, K-9 units have an uncontaminated smell to track.
    — Harry Sayer, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 July 2017
  • No documentation was found that proved the top soil used was uncontaminated.
    — Kat Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Can producers scale up to meet demand while ensuring all products are clean/uncontaminated?
    — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Try transplanting some of your silver dollar plants to an uncontaminated area, making sure not to include any garlic mustard.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The city borrowed more than $17 million in federal-state loans to build a new treatment plant and drill new wells that tap into an uncontaminated aquifer.
    — Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2022
  • The quarantine indicates that perhaps there are other uncontaminated regions trying to keep the rain out of the border.
    — refinery29.com, 4 May 2018
  • Suddenly there was a recognition that design could not take uncontaminated water, stable food supplies or clean air for granted.
    — Nikil Saval, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The contaminated milk does not smell or appear any different from uncontaminated raw milk.
    — Shiv Sudhakar, Fox News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Unprotected farm animals were dead, while those that had been confined to fairly solid barns with uncontaminated feed had a fair chance of surviving.
    — Nan Randall, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Testing of uncontaminated wells will now be done every two weeks, Berg said, to ensure that the contamination isn't spreading.
    — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2021
  • That bacteria transferred from the shoes to otherwise uncontaminated floor tiles more than nine out of 10 times, the study subsequently found.
    — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
  • During this cycle, the litter is picked up and sifted through a grate, separating the waste out into a waste tray and allowing the uncontaminated litter to fall back into the main litter bed.
    — Katherine Alex Beaven, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
  • On select nights, follow dinner or drinks with a visit to the adjacent observatory and enjoy uncontaminated views of the galaxy.
    — Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2026
  • However, uncontaminated gluten-free oats are widely available from producers such as Bob’s Red Mill; just read the package to be sure.
    — Ashleigh Spitza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2018
  • To that end, Paşca and his colleagues are working on finding a faster way to make organoid cells mature, since maintaining uncontaminated cell cultures for two years is unsustainable in the long run.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2017
  • Lin collects uncontaminated plastics which include needle and medication caps, as well as plastic containers.
    — Molly McCrea, CBS News, 1 May 2026
  • To ensure a perfect, uncontaminated seal, the canisters—weighing 26 tons when filled—will be welded shut by electron beams rather than the more common sacrificial-electrode method.
    — Tim Heffernan, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2012
  • So the first job of every IT organization is to protect that data, keeping it uncontaminated for the workloads that rely on the data to drive the business forward.
    — Steve McDowell, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • As a result, Ponza remains gloriously uncontaminated by mass foreign tourism.
    — Catherine Fairweather, airmail.news, 21 Sep. 2024
  • The city's website also includes guidelines regarding the disposal of sandbags — only dry and uncontaminated bags should be reused, and those that have been exposed to floodwaters should be placed in residents' bulk trash piles for collection.
    — Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 28 May 2026
  • Muller is currently assembling stories and recipes for a second book, which will focus on her journey from Manhattan to the remote farm as well as the traditions of the uncontaminated interior heart of the island.
    — Valentina Di Donato, Forbes, 25 June 2021
  • At first, producers began indiscriminately clearing parts of pristine forests in order to keep planting Gros Michel on uncontaminated lands but without much success.
    — Agostino Petroni, Bon Appétit, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The wealthy were generally able to afford higher quality, authentic, uncontaminated products.
    — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 1 May 2025
  • The idea has remained controversial, given the difficulty of obtaining healthy, uncontaminated human brain tissue that could be used to study possible microbial inhabitants.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia, the work is an installation of a large pool of water and rocks against the backdrop of digital screens depicting the early days of an uncontaminated planet.
    — Vivienne Chow, Quartzy, 15 June 2019

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