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How to use the word residue in a Sentence?

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If you are using a standard detergent, be sure to give the jacket an extra rinse cycle to ensure a residue-free garment.

Corey Simpson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I know everybody’s a little messed up after all that. We still have the residue of it with January 6 and all the politics that are still happening, everything that our last regime left behind. All of this has been dropped on us. We’re still trying to recover.

Macy Gray

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Last year, I promised myself I wouldn't set the rice paddy residue on fire to clear my field for planting winter crops, but as the new sowing season drew closer, I started running out of time and I reluctantly set the farm waste on fire to prepare the field for wheat planting.

Farmer Ramesh Singh

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This new study highlights that components that are not included in the Mediterranean diet, like focusing on low pesticide residue produce and including supplementation of specific vitamins, may be a better choice for those undergoing ART.

Lauren Manaker

Found on CNN
5 years ago

ART is the medium through which you express the inexpressible, convey the unconveyable, transporting the audience in different realms of existence erasing their mental identities. Any effort by the artist to make an personal identity is detrimental in an artistic sense. Be Wiser, leave no residue dissolve in ART!

RAMANA PEMMARAJU

added by Ramana Pemmaraju
6 years ago

With 'Underground,' we see that the wounds that we all as a nation inflicted upon our brothers and sisters during slavery have not been healed, there's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Found on CNN
7 years ago

There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It's risky if we use B30 (because) machinery can shut down, eventually the machinery gets clogged with residue like slagging causing blockages, and then it breaks down.

Chairani Rachmatullah

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Eventually the machinery gets clogged with residue like slagging causing blockages, and then it breaks down.

Chairani Rachmatullah

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It's interesting how everyone you come in contact with leaves a residue on you. The interaction stays with you forever, becomes a part of you, and changes you whether you like it or not. The Rabbit Hole

Amiya Powell

added by anonymous
8 years ago

It's worse than we thought, It has the effect of factually affecting the results on the field of play and athletes, both in Russia and abroad, are suffering as a result, it may be a residue of the old Soviet system ... they must stop it and make a new start.

Dick Pound

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You can repaint, and pour concrete, to hide radioactive residue or simulate the tests with non-nuclear material.

Olli Heinonen

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This single incident would be reflective of acute toxicity. Pesticides play a role in acute and chronic health problems depending on the level of exposure, if you can measure residue in this kid's brain, then she was probably exposed to a very significant level of pesticide.

Chensheng Lu

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I smelled the residue of smoke, smelled like fireworks, cannons.

Boston Police Officer Lauren Woods

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Humans are so foolish--we measure ourselves by our residue.

Leslie Miklosy

added by scrutinizer00
11 years ago

Luck is the residue of design.

Branch Rickey

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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