How to Use sanitation in a Sentence

sanitation

noun
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  • Diseases can spread from poor sanitation.
  • If a fish-stand staffer, with sanitation gloves, offers to hand you a clump of smoked salmon, take it.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2022
  • That’s a plus, but the camp lacks proper shelter and sanitation, and food is scarce.
    — Time, 6 Oct. 2023
  • As sanitation workers, the women take home wages of around 250 rupees a day, per the BBC.
    — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Or that judge might have taken a broader view of the word sanitation.
    — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
  • That’s more than the city spends on sanitation, parks, and the fire department combined.
    — The Editors, National Review, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The Memphis sanitation strike was more than 50 years ago.
    — Kurtis Lee, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023
  • That price gets you the tub, some sanitation chemicals, and not much else.
    — Sean Evans, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Then on a recent Monday, sanitation crews threw out what was left of the encampment and towed the RV.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2022
  • Look for shoes that can be scrubbed, machine washed, or wiped down for easy cleaning and sanitation.
    — Lindsay Modglin, Verywell Health, 16 May 2024
  • And so his film’s hero will be a sanitation worker who cleans the toilets, seeing his job as a craft and a service for the people.
    — Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 11 May 2022
  • The city of Portage’s sanitation department could have a green fleet complete by 2028.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • He had been employed as a sanitation worker for five years.
    — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The first line of a classic tune by The Stylistics is an ode to striking sanitation workers, and their reprise is a reminder, much like Bluey, that people make the world go round.
    — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Streets had been closed off, cops milled around, and sanitation workers stood by, ready to start the arduous cleanup process whenever the event was over.
    — Caroline Tien, SELF, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Needless to say, the better the sanitation, the healthier these villages will be.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 11 July 2024
  • Watch this little boy get the most thoughtful gift from his sanitation heroes.
    — Allison Moses, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
  • Memphis sanitation workers in those years used round 17-gallon plastic tubs to haul garbage from backyards to trucks on the street.
    — Steven Greenhouse, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Overcrowding, lack of clean water and sanitation could lead to the spread of infections like cholera and dysentery, compounding on the plight of Gazans.
    — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The wheels had broken off one of their bags, so a local sanitation worker who had taken pity on them gave them a wheelbarrow.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The virus spreads easily via a fecal-oral route through poor hygiene and sanitation.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2022
  • He was found guilty of manslaughter in the death of a sanitation worker during a traffic argument and served 12 years.
    — Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • In late July, sanitation workers did a sweep through Corona Plaza, renowned for its lively food scene.
    — Susan Hartman Todd Heisler, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Low pay was part of the reason the city had trouble retaining sanitation workers.
    — Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Cashin said a sanitation worker on to the truck spotted the woman in the hopper via the vehicle's video system, which has at least one camera trained inside the hopper.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The study suggests that while sanitation will always be key, other factors may also play a role.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The plant will be in operation seven days a week with six days of production and the seventh day reserved for sanitation.
    — Journal Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Adams has pledged to solve the city’s sanitation issues and said in June that part of the more than $100 billion budget this year will be allocated to clean up public spaces.
    — Christian Richey, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The union of sanitation workers, Teamsters Local 831, has weighed in on city pilot programs like this one before.
    — Curbed, 2 Feb. 2024
  • These included basic sanitation practices and better understanding of disease and ways to prevent spread of infectious agents like bacteria and viruses.
    — Alice Park, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024

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