How to Use ozone hole in a Sentence

ozone hole

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Definition of ozone holenext
  • The more cold, the more clouds, the bigger the ozone hole.
    — Seth Borenstein, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2022
  • In that 33-year record, this is the 14th largest ozone hole.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2020
  • In October, the ozone hole over Antarctica grew to one of the largest on record.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The hole will likely set a new benchmark for the largest ozone hole ever recorded in the North Pole.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Within just four years of the discovery of the thinning ozone hole, the agreement was in force.
    — National Geographic, 29 Apr. 2019
  • The ozone hole is related to the Antarctic polar vortex, a band of swirling cold air that moves around the Earth.
    — Jeevan Ravindran, CNN, 16 Sep. 2021
  • At its peak on Sept. 20, this year's ozone hole covered about 9.6 million square miles.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The ozone hole and acid rain were not fixed with the first international agreements on the table.
    — Hannah Ritchie, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Climate change is affecting the winds, but so is the ozone hole and short-term cycles like El Nino.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 1 July 2019
  • The Arctic ozone hole is expected to heal and will likely disappear in the next month or so.
    — NBC News, 31 Mar. 2020
  • The Antarctic ozone hole was the smallest it's ever been since its discovery.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 28 Dec. 2019
  • The worry is that climate change and efforts to reduce the ozone hole get intertwined.
    — Seth Borenstein, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2022
  • This agreement was highly effective—the ozone hole reached its peak size in 2006 and has been shrinking since then.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • The ozone hole tends to result in those winds being pushed outward from Antarctica.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2022
  • As such, few things could get my young heart racing more than news about that ominous real-life villain known as the ozone hole.
    — Lynn Johnson, National Geographic, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole did prove that CFCs have an effect on our atmosphere.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 6 July 2022
  • The ozone hole has been slowly improving over the Antarctic since the year 2000, said the report, which is released every four years.
    — Jeremy Beaman, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Since then, scientists have been monitoring the size of the ozone hole, which is shrinking.
    — Don Lincoln, CNN, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The Antarctic ozone hole in the Southern Hemisphere is known for its yearly variations.
    — NBC News, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Decades ago, lab work was enough to figure out the complex chemistry that was depleting the ozone hole, Cziczo says.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The infamous ozone hole over Antarctica was discovered in the late 1970s.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2018
  • But while the ozone hole is now in recovery, climate change may be having a similar effect.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2018
  • This year's stratospheric ozone hole over Antarctica grew by 3.3 million square miles over last year's.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The ozone hole spurred countries and companies into action.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2018
  • Every September, the ozone layer thins to form an ozone hole above Antarctica.
    — Eric Niiler, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2023
  • In recent years, the warming trend has dampened, likely due in part to atmospheric changes caused by the recovery of the Antarctic ozone hole.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 5 Nov. 2020
  • The annual ozone hole that forms over Antarctica has ballooned to near-record size, scientists say.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • But the remaining ozone hole over the Antarctic is highly volatile and depends on weather conditions.
    — Laura Millan Lombrana, Bloomberg.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Natural weather patterns in the Antarctic also affect ozone hole levels, which peak in the fall.
    — Seth Borenstein, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • And the more emissions grow, the greater the likelihood of reaching crucial tipping points, as witnessed with the formation of the ozone hole in the 1980s after years of gradual ozone depletion.
    — Kelly Sims Gallagher, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024

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