How to Use incinerator in a Sentence

incinerator

noun
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  • Once the gate is charged, Rogue can send him straight to the incinerator.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 7 June 2024
  • And the third is for mixed waste that’ll wind up in an incinerator.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 30 Sep. 2020
  • One side of the room had an iron gate that opened to an incinerator.
    — Author: John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
  • In 2012, the nation’s largest trash incinerator was planned to be built less than a mile from a high school.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2020
  • As the train passed what looked like an incinerator, there was the smell of burning trash and a massive plume of smoke.
    — David Culver, CNN, 11 May 2023
  • The incinerator shrinks the garbage by 75% and Goodwald tries to make a buck by shrinking the leftover ash.
    — Star Tribune, 20 Sep. 2020
  • Waste heat from the incinerator helps run the system, which pulls in some 900 tons of CO2 per year from the atmosphere.
    — Vince Beiser, Wired, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Johnson said the city wants to install a centrifuge to process waste oil from boats for the incinerator.
    — Christina McDermott, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Far more waste in the U.S. is headed to landfills or the incinerator compared to just two years ago.
    — Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Some had been found in tubs at the incinerator and some at the Bio Care facility.
    — Author: Brian Grow, John Shiffman, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 Oct. 2017
  • On Hand After you rake your leaves this fall, don’t toss them in the incinerator or bag them for the trash collector.
    — Rebecca Straus, Good Housekeeping, 21 Oct. 2016
  • The faulty incinerator plant hasn’t been improved in at least 20 years.
    — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Six out of eight of the city's incinerators were in Black neighborhoods.
    — Yessenia Funes, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • That is propelling more cities to send their trash to the incinerator.
    — Saabira Chaudhuri, WSJ, 10 June 2020
  • That would save the city from spending $100 million on a new incinerator for AWWU.
    — Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Nov. 2019
  • In Japan, bio-toilets have been set up along the route to Mount Fuji's summit, and incinerator toilets are at the top.
    — Dan Joling, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • But cops burst into the room and seize the film — Ace is dead, so the lawyer who was against Meg's release can do that — and the final shot of the episode shows the film reels burning in an incinerator.
    — Jean Bentley, refinery29.com, 4 May 2020
  • An old garbage incinerator in the woods of Devou Park has been tied to several ghost stories over the years.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 28 Oct. 2022
  • On the same day that the official arrived, the WIV sought to procure a costly air incinerator.
    — ProPublica, 7 July 2023
  • The other 85% head straight to the landfill or incinerator.
    — Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The incinerator is designed to burn the waste until it is reduced to a fine, black ash before it is taken to a landfill.
    — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2023
  • So many priests abused young men and women, who gave birth to children who were often thrown in an incinerator.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Why not just pack tons of trash into a rocket and shoot it into the sun, the ultimate incinerator?
    — David Pescovitz, WIRED, 1 Jan. 1997
  • The more that happens, the more plastic that ends up going to landfills or incinerators.
    — Elena Shao, SFChronicle.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • At the time, the family’s efforts had stopped more than a ton of plastic from ending up in incinerators.
    — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Stericycle has since abandoned the move and is expected to close the incinerator in the next year or two.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Jan. 2021
  • The dog’s body was put in a red bag and sent to the incinerator — the final destination for an untold number of beagles.
    — Lizzie Johnson, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The dog’s body was put in a red bag and sent to the incinerator - the final destination for an untold number of beagles.
    — Lizzie Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2022
  • In our backyard was an incinerator made of concrete with an iron door.
    — Julia Wick, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
  • Its residents make up just 6.5% of the city’s population, yet host two-thirds of the city’s waste sites, incinerators, and factories.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 29 June 2024

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