Example sentences for: greenhouse

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

  • The huge Victorian greenhouse, New Palm House, is impressive and packed with ferns and palms that thrive in the warm, damp environment.

  • A piece pegged to the global-warming summit contends that the United States can save $300 billion a year and reduce greenhouse gases by using energy more efficiently.

  • USAT says the Clinton greenhouse plan, to be submitted to an upcoming international conference on the problem, sets up a pollution credits market under which companies profit from getting below emissions standards, promises further incentives for companies cutting emissions before 2008, and also invests $5 billion over five years on energy-efficient technology.

  • The coverage is confusing, since, for example, the Washington Post says the meetings simply tabled until next year the issue of whether and how the world's poorer nations would participate, and the New York Times says the industrial nations are required to reduce their emissions of the six main greenhouse gases to 5.2 percent below 1990 levels, while the Los Angeles Times says they're bound to a 6.5 percent reduction.

  • Of course, we may yet live up to our own publicity and pull off something apocalyptic like a runaway greenhouse that sterilises the Earth.


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