Example sentences for: contamination

How can you use “contamination” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But the unrest they inspired prompted the Tokugawa government to move them all here, to a guarded compound on the village flats — ostensibly to guarantee their safety, but more importantly to contain the contamination of their uncouth ways and ideas.

  • The absence of this sperm-specific band in the cDNA from the epithelial cell lysate (Lane 11) verifies that the epithelial cells were free from sperm contamination and that the cDNA amplified from the cells is endogenous to the epididymis.

  • Each data set was defined using combinations of the following six parameters, modeled in part after the study of Bickel [ 13 ] but with slightly larger variance (standard deviation parameter = 2) to more closely approximate real biological data sets [ 7 9 ] , additional levels, distributions, and locations of contamination, and other features: (1) Type of original distribution: normal (mode = 6), lognormal (mode = 1, median = 2.72), and coarse (mode = 6.25) distributions (Figure 2a).

  • The NYT fronts the challenge to the USDA's new inspection methods by a beef processing plant in Texas that failed three tests for salmonella contamination in eight months.

  • In designing a randomized trial of cancer screening one should adjust the sample size for anticipated non-attendance and contamination.


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