Sample Sentences for
environment
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(editor-reviewed)

environment as in:  the environmental movement

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    Her lecture is on energy and the environment.
    environment = natural world
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    THE ENVIRONMENT, he wrote on the chalkboard, and added: OUR WORLD!  (source)
    ENVIRONMENT = the natural world
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    Once we tackle world hunger, then we can figure out how to fix the environment and solve the energy crisis.  (source)
    environment = the quality of human, animal, and plant life
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    They didn't get many visitors in Snakewater, and there had been a lot of speculation about what a lawyer from the Environmental Protection Agency would want to see Alan Grant about.  (source)
    Environmental = relating to the quality of human, animal, and plant life
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    We here at Mother Paula's All-American Pancake Houses, Inc., take pride in our strong commitment to the environment.  (source)
    environment = the quality of human, animal, and plant life
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    I mean, it's more environmentally responsible.†  (source)
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    Consequently, the Environmental Impact Statement conveniently disappeared from the city files.  (source)
    Environmental Impact Statement = a report on the effects of certain actions upon the quality of human, animal, and plant life
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    His advisers, who had updates on infrastructure and some environmental concerns, were seated to one side, and the camera cut to show them.  (source)
    environmental = related to the natural world
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    Aside from corruption and bad government, my father's main concern in those days was the environment.  (source)
    environment = natural world (the quality of human, animal, and plant life)
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    We do it in a very environmentally friendly way.†  (source)
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    Environmental Impact Statement.  (source)
    Environmental Impact Statement = a report on the effects of certain actions upon the quality of human, animal, and plant life
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    It is unquestionably beautiful, but its beauty is obscured by the environmental waste and loose trash that scatters the countryside.  (source)
    environmental = relating to the natural world
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    I like eating with my fingers and off napkins, but my sister says that doing so is bad for the environment.  (source)
    environment = natural world (the quality of human, animal, and plant life)
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environment as in:  her family environment

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    We create a supportive environment where it's safe to take chances.
    environment = surrounding conditions
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    And it was in this environment that Procompsognathus lived.  (source)
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    The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.  (source)
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    O victim of environment, underprivileged, rotten, no-count hood!  (source)
    environment = surrounding conditions
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    But environments are never static for long.†  (source)
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    Sometimes these mutations occur during pregnancy. Sometimes they're inherited from one parent carrying the dominant gene. Sometimes they're caused by the interaction of many genes, possibly in combination with environmental factors.  (source)
    environmental = related to surrounding conditions
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    It's a safe environment, and then you get thrown back into reality.  (source)
    environment = surrounding situation
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    Urban environments are way more energy efficient than rural ones.†  (source)
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    In other words, despite all of the environmental pressures from my neighborhood and community, I received a different message at home.  (source)
    environmental = relating to surrounding conditions
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    The desert is the environment of revelation, genetically and physiologically alien, sensorily austere, esthetically abstract, historically inimical….  (source)
    environment = surrounding conditions
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    Then we wore the suits outside and lay down in different environments, trying to spot each other.†  (source)
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    But by computer analysis we're working with something like five hundred variables: one hundred and twenty environmental, another two hundred intra-egg, and the rest from the genetic material itself.  (source)
    environmental = relating to surrounding conditions
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    See, there's this boy who's starting middle school this year, and he's never been in a real school environment before because he was homeschooled, so...  (source)
    environment = surrounding conditions
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