noun
asbestos
a fibrous amphibole; used for making fireproof articles; inhaling fibers can cause asbestosis or lung cancer
In a sentence
Six example sentences with asbestos, each labelled with its topic.
The tribunal compensated shipyard workers whose breathing was ruined by asbestos stripped from boiler rooms decades earlier.
Law
Contractors sealed the corridor in plastic sheeting before removing asbestos from the ceiling tiles of the old school.
Architecture
The insurer set aside four billion dollars for claims tied to asbestos used in its brake linings.
Business
Romans wove asbestos into cloth that came out of the fire clean, and wealthy families used it for napkins.
History
The lung specialist asked about asbestos first, since the scarring on the scan matched decades of breathing the fibers.
Medicine
The snow falling on Dorothy in the poppy field was asbestos, a studio trick nobody questioned in 1939.
Movies
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