How to Use ozone layer in a Sentence

ozone layer

noun
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  • Huge hole in the ozone layer opens over the North Pole.
    — Lorcan Roche Kelly, Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2020
  • The ozone layer was on the wrong side of the boundary in the 1990s, Richardson said.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023
  • That keeps the hole in the ozone layer on track to shrink over the coming decades.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 16 May 2018
  • The goal was for the telescope to detect the Earth’s ozone layer.
    — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The high-profile 600SEL is not a major threat to the ozone layer.
    — Martin Padgett Jr., Car and Driver, 16 Sep. 2020
  • For the most part, nature can render holes in the ozone layer.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 Oct. 2022
  • 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 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
  • In the case of the ozone layer, the economic trade-offs were minimal.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2019
  • Much like acid rain, the hole in the ozone layer caused governments to take action.
    — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 22 July 2022
  • That reactive ruckus is what causes the hole in the ozone layer.
    — J. Besl, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2023
  • Now, the ozone layer is under a new threat: climate change.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2012
  • The hole in Earth’s ozone layer is opening early this year.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • His 1975 report on the subject was among the first to highlight the role that the gases played in depleting the ozone layer.
    — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Their research pointed to the rapidly growing hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 29 Sep. 2023
  • And second, aluminum oxide could damage and even rip a new hole in the ozone layer.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2021
  • The ionosphere sits directly above the Earth’s ozone layer.
    — Alex Stuckey, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Jan. 2018
  • The strength of the winds has been linked, in part, to the increase of planet-heating pollution as well as the hole in the ozone layer above the continent.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica has trickle-down effects on winds.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2023
  • And that last point is now having a lasting impact on our ozone layer.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Thanks to the hole in the ozone layer and the way people have increased greenhouse gasses on the planet, stronger winds are blowing over the Southern Ocean.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 18 June 2019
  • More than three decades later, the use of CFCs has decreased by 99%, and the Earth’s ozone layer is on track to recover in the coming decades.
    — Don Lincoln, CNN, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The ozone layer is a thin blanket in the stratosphere made of molecules with three oxygen atoms.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • 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
  • We’re left hoping that hazardous pieces won’t reach the ground, that all those tons of vaporized aerospace-grade metal won’t further erode our planet’s protective ozone layer, that the sky will not fall.
    — Samantha Lawler, Scientific American, 11 July 2024
  • The ozone layer in the upper atmosphere protects the planet from the Sun's radiation, but ozone that forms at ground level—caused by a chemical reaction in the sunlight between pollutants such as car exhaust fumes—can be dangerous.
    — Chloe Mayer, Newsweek, 9 July 2024

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