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Example sentences for "pollutes"

Lexicographically close words:
polloi; polls; pollutants; pollute; polluted; polluting; pollution; pollutions; pollywog; pollywogs
  1. Next to the physician he best knows the mental and physical suffering, the moral defeat, and the awful injustice to women and children whom the libertine pollutes with incurable diseases.

  2. In proportion as society prevents or perverts this moral outreach after God, it pollutes and endangers itself.

  3. In solitude he pollutes himself, and with his own hand blights all his prospects for both this world and the next.

  4. So, also, he who pollutes himself in the manner we are considering, violates the seventh commandment, although the crime is in both cases committed against himself.

  5. We'll get away from this thing; it pollutes the air.

  6. Aren't you afraid to come so near anything that pollutes the air?

  7. If stated in the vernacular of the present day, this doleful opinion of Marshall would read: "Nothing, I believe, more debases or pollutes the human mind than partisan politics.

  8. Nothing I believe more debases or pollutes the human mind than faction [party].

  9. For he, wretched man, having gained the glorious victory over the enigmas, contracts a marriage, an unfortunate marriage with his mother, and pollutes the city.

  10. And some of you going along the city, track out this effeminate stranger, who brings this new disease upon women, and pollutes our beds.

  11. The male organ was made for a high and holy purpose, and woe be to him who pollutes his manhood by practicing the secret vice.

  12. Furthermore, the moral relations existing between the married couple undergo unfortunate changes; this affection, founded upon reciprocal esteem, is little by little effaced by the repetition of an act which pollutes the marriage bed.

  13. This disgusting literature corrupts and pollutes the mind and morals of a large class of people who have not the courage to disbelieve its monstrous exaggerations, or the good sense to despise its revolting indecencies.

  14. See where the blood-stained flag of tyranny Pollutes the air that breathes around your homes.

  15. Yet must I go to him whose wrongful power Pollutes this house--fair tidings these to him!

  16. His association with that impure beast, the donkey, the animal sacred to Sitala, the smallpox goddess, pollutes him and also his readiness to carry manure and sweepings.

  17. One probable cause of the taboo seems to be that the process of soaking and retting the stalks of the plant pollutes the water, and if carried on in a tank or in the pools of a stream might destroy the village supply of drinking-water.

  18. Lying along upon the ground, his father pollutes his white hair and his aged features with dust, and chides his prolonged existence.

  19. Auramazda again replies that nothing carried away by wolves, dogs, birds, flies, or winds pollutes men.

  20. And if he disobeys the law, and pollutes the city and the temples contrary to law, and one of the magistrates sees him and does not indict him, when he gives in his account this omission shall be a most serious charge.

  21. And if every one who asserts this is mad, it must be false that Victor says, when he declares that "he who admits heretics to communion without baptism, not only fails to cleanse the heretics, but pollutes the Christians as well.

  22. Each one of you, even though he be chaste in his body, yet in spirit is an adulterer, because he pollutes his holiness.

  23. Cruelty is not a part of gentleness, nor religion a part of sacrilege; nor can the party of Macarius in any way be part of us, because he pollutes the likeness of our rite.

  24. By defilement of the spirit he means those secret, subtle vices wherewith man pollutes and corrupts his inner life in the sight of God; his sins not being manifest to the world, but deceiving human reason and wisdom.

  25. Thus shall we guard ourselves against abuse of God's name, against false worship and false trust and that presumption of self-holiness which pollutes and defrauds the spirit.

  26. But when corrupt nature begins to delight itself inordinately with these visitations, loving the gifts more than the Giver, it immediately pollutes them by corrupt mixtures of self-love.

  27. Nothing is more common, than that some word or other is dropped in the conversation of men, which being idle and vain, grievously wounds and pollutes the soul.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pollutes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.