How to Use containment in a Sentence

containment

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  • The government needs to adopt a containment strategy.
  • The company's hazardous waste containment plan is being reviewed.
  • Crews were working to build a containment lines around the burn area.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2023
  • Edge containment was part of the problem and Nix was also hard to bring down in the open field.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Edgar spent three days and two nights on the fire line, long enough for the containment effort to succeed.
    — Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The virus’s prevalence in the wild presents new challenges for its containment.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The fire's containment dropped to 20% Wednesday as its size increased by more than 12 square miles in the Foresthill area.
    — Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
  • As the salt dissolves, the resulting brine comes to the surface and is stored in large containment ponds.
    — Henry Fountain Nina Riggio, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • And while there have been some improvements in containment, the risk of flare-ups remains.
    — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
  • In this case, the policy has to be purchased within 60 days of containment of the wildfire.
    — Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The right strategy in Ukraine is a patient and steady pursuit of containment.
    — Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Last July, a crane hoisted the upper half of a steel containment shell into place.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Jan. 2023
  • There was no containment on those fire as of Wednesday morning.
    — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • And yet for all our sakes, containment must be possible.
    — Mustafa Suleyman, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2023
  • All of the radioactive waste from Palo Verde's start in 1985 is stored in containment silos in an area roughly the size of a football field.
    — The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Crews planned to extinguish hot spots and build containment lines around the burn area through Monday, Cornette said.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2023
  • But the latest outbreaks have squashed hopes for a less-stringent and more growth-friendly approach to containment, at least for now.
    — Jason Douglas, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Can’t give up both The Suns have tried to tighten up giving up points in the paint with ball containment, gap control and creating a tighter shell on that end.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The key here will be keeping Finn from getting outside containment.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Police set up a containment around the area and were able to arrest three suspects, one of which had a window punch tool on their possession.
    — The Arizona Republic, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Two of the three fires are still burning, with dozens of firefighters working by ground and air to build containment lines and monitor for any hot spots and flare-ups.
    — Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The quick spread of the fire and lack of containment caused evacuations to be announced by the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office.
    — Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 26 July 2023
  • Upon arrival, police were able to get both victims out of the house and began to set up containment around the house, court documents state.
    — Kye Graves, The Arizona Republic, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Look again: This is not an image of containment but one of gentle anchoring.
    — Phoebe Chen, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The county said in a news release the still-burning fires are not posing active threats, even though containment of the fires hasn't changed in several days.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • When you’re supposed to have containment and then crash down inside, most skilled players will beat you easily to the outside.
    — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Over and over, he’s practiced setting out containment booms, floating barriers designed to slow the spread of slicks.
    — Lois Parshley, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Flu is a tricky, unstable virus that has eluded lasting containment since the first vaccine against it was released in 1945.
    — Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 10 Nov. 2023
  • An emu fad fueled by demand for the bird’s high-protein eggs swept Carroll County about a decade ago, Miller said, and proper containment for the wily birds is rare.
    — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The photos showed no visible changes to the roofs of the six concrete containment domes covering the reactors at the plant, or nearby buildings.
    — Samya Kullab, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023

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