How to Use hazmat in a Sentence

hazmat

noun
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  • Its sailors wore white hazmat suits and masks, as if they had been sent to Chernobyl.
    — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The area was isolated and a hazmat team tested chemicals found on the floor.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Cleanup crews wearing full-body hazmat suits strode into the tide with hand sieves to try to collect the lentil-size plastic pellets.
    — CBS News, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Some bullying — a gang of young adults drinking beer by a trailer make fun of Eli for wearing a hazmat suit in public.
    — Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
  • In the midst of these beautiful, massive crystals there are these tiny little people wearing what looks like orange hazmat suits.
    — National Geographic, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The theater was evacuated, and local streets were closed as hazmat crews responded.
    — USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Police closed the road as one of the vehicles was leaking gas, causing it to become a hazmat situation.
    — Molly Duerig, azcentral, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The boat leaked 30 to 40 gallons of diesel fuel, so firefighters called a hazmat team, McMahon said.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The campaign video features genre-appropriate dark lighting, pensive music, a scratchy radio voice, a yellow hazmat suit, and a scared wide-eyed child with unkempt hair.
    — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Cincinnati's hazmat team responded, but there were no hazards outside the immediate area, the fire department tweeted.
    — Amir Vera, CNN, 22 Dec. 2019
  • The bomb squad and a hazmat team were also called to the scene.
    — Christian Martinez Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2022
  • One man walked through the area in a white hazmat suit.
    — Time, 22 Mar. 2020
  • Men in white hazmat suits pour lime over the brown soil to seal the graves.
    — Sarah Sirgany, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Now, all that’s left is a gray hazmat zone filled with the sorrow of what has been lost.
    — Jacqueline Yoo, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Wrapped in a hazmat suit, she's led to the corpse of a middle-aged woman with a gnarly bite on her left leg.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Health workers in hazmat suits arrived at their door in the middle of the night to take them away.
    — Rebecca Kanthor / Shanghai, Time, 12 Apr. 2022
  • What is a serve is the hazmat jumpsuit Marlo wears for the sprinter.
    — Chris Murphy, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2021
  • On our way through the arrival hall, we were waylaid by men in hazmat suits.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 14 June 2022
  • Woburn fire crews responded to the scene, along with state hazmat teams, Wark said.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2021
  • Despite the unknown, Jaynes put on a white hazmat suit, asked the family to leave the home and retrieved the body.
    — Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Two women in hazmat suits and face shields came out to my car, and one stuck a long swab up my nostril.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2020
  • There are two hazmat vehicles at the scene cleaning up the oil.
    — Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Nov. 2021
  • To ring the bell, workers donned hazmat suits and masks to avoid the large quantities of poisonous lead that was spread about from the fire.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 15 Apr. 2020
  • The transition ramp was shut down for hours while county hazmat crews cleaned up the spill.
    — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2021
  • Like wearing a hazmat suit to the office, your last sentence is overkill.
    — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2020
  • The staff sent nurses around with cleaning crews to calm those spooked by the sight of strange people dressed head-to-toe in hazmat suits.
    — al, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Firefighters wore hazmat suits to get the two out of the tanker, firefighters said.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 21 Feb. 2020
  • In the United States, hazmat suits have remained a rare sight in daily life, even at the height of the pandemic.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Not through gloves, goggles, a mask, a hairnet, a hazmat suit and plastic sheets.
    — Lotte Bowser, refinery29.com, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The Ekstra Bladet newspaper ran photos of a man in a white hazmat suit being taken away by police on a train platform at the central station.
    — Jan M. Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2024

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