How to Use hazmat in a Sentence

hazmat

noun
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  • On the third night the truck appears, Ally accosts a person in a hazmat suit spraying her lawn.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Here’s a new one for you: Why did the Belgian police officer put on a hazmat suit?
    — Valentina Pop, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
  • And Public School turned hazmat shoes and plaid fanny packs into high fashion.
    — Landon Speers, The Cut, 10 Sep. 2017
  • Two weeks earlier the same person obtained his commercial license to drive a hazmat truck.
    — Warren Richey, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2017
  • The group is comprised of about 80 hazmat specialists, urban search and rescue crews, and doctors.
    — CBS News, 13 Sep. 2017
  • When Colbert started spouting gibberish on stage, two people clad in hazmat suits appeared to drag him away.
    — Tracy Brown, latimes.com, 17 Sep. 2017
  • According to WDBO, a hazmat team was required to clean the sewage.
    — miamiherald, 9 Aug. 2017
  • The secretary of state police took the woman into custody, and the fire department sent in its hazmat team to investigate.
    — Elizabeth Campbell, Bloomberg.com, 6 July 2017
  • After the five children — whose names and ages have not been released — were rushed to the hospital, a hazmat crew arrived to help expel the excess chemicals from the area.
    — Robert Newhouse, Teen Vogue, 29 June 2017
  • These days, the firm’s clientele is expanding to the behavioral hazmat zones of Silicon Valley.
    — Felix Gillette, Bloomberg.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The fire department could not be reached for comment on the apparent hazmat situation because its members are on scene at the school, a fire department employee said.
    — Zak Koeske, Daily Southtown, 18 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • Both streets are closed in the area while Trussville Fire hazmat units are working the scene.
    — Connor Sheets, AL.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Its sailors wore white hazmat suits and masks, as if they had been sent to Chernobyl.
    — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Morey said hazmat crews worked to clean up 100 gallons of diesel that spilled on the roadway.
    — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Workers in hazmat suits use shopping carts to help block the worst of the tangle from the intakes.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Custodial will need to do some hazmat cleaning of the grates and the pits.
    — latimes.com, 3 June 2019
  • 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
  • Crime scene unit cops were spotted entering the building in white hazmat suits and blue plastic booties.
    — Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2024
  • According to a post from the EMA, a perimeter was established and hazmat crews began working to identify the substance.
    — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2024

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