How to Use brownout in a Sentence

brownout

noun

• The freeze prompted rolling power brownouts and school and business closings in the D.C. area.
  — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2018
• The few brownouts that have occurred were weather related.
  — Mary Ellen Klas, miamiherald, 11 Jan. 2018
• Google has taken some steps to ensure that a similar network brownout doesn’t happen again.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 7 June 2019
• When the power goes out, the battery takes over, giving you enough time to save your work and shut down, switch to an external battery pack, or keep working through short outages and brownouts.
  — David Nield, WIRED, 9 July 2023
• Luckily, there was no talk of imminent blackouts or brownouts.
  — Randy Diamond, ExpressNews.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• Three months prior to the end of the war in Europe, cities in the U.S. were under a brownout order in which shop windows were dark and theater marquees and outdoor advertising signs were turned off.
  — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 8 May 2020
• West Bloomfield's main library was closed after suffering a brownout on Friday evening.
  — John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 1 July 2018
• That year, a brownout internally dubbed Technado left crews stranded for days after a faulty router caused a 12-hour-long system outage.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2022
• There's never been a year since 2012 when the city hasn't faced a deficit and there have been other budgetary priorities for the fire department, namely ending brownouts, the practice of not running all fire crews all the time to save money.
  — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 30 Jan. 2020
• These prime venues will experience an otherworldly brownout, while the rest of Americans will see only a partial eclipse.
  — CNT, 4 Aug. 2017
• Fortunately, the information brownout in China was at this point beginning to show signs of cracking.
  — Laurie Garrett, The New Republic, 2 Apr. 2020
• The safety forces proposed postponing recruit classes, which could mean slower response times and a return to fire department brownouts.
  — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 10 May 2017
• Can installing solar panels cut energy costs and prevent brownouts or blackouts?
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2023
• No brownouts as the Electric Reliability Council of Texas warned could happen this summer.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
• But even in cities, higher temperatures are straining the power grid, raising the specter of brownouts and blackouts if residents don’t manage their electricity use well.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• That report also indicated Texas would see brownouts amid the most extreme situations.
  — Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 13 June 2023
• Now, this energy rationing and forthcoming potential blackout brownout is the direct result of the state's climate hysteria.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 8 Sep. 2022
• On the same day, though, brownouts in Baghdad left millions without power, showing the government’s limited capacity to provide public services to its people.
  — Ben Kesling, WSJ, 2 July 2017
• The film is arch, but no triumph, an airless exercise in mistrusting its audience, and all of it is accompanied by pummeling music that sounds like a Vangelis wannabe recorded during a brownout.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 18 Feb. 2021
• Victorino said the fire had damaged the electricity grid, and Maui Electric was asking residents to conserve power Friday evening to prevent a possible power outage or brownout.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 13 July 2019
• The Australian energy industry hopes having good market data and access to renewables storage will mean smoothing out events like, for example, black- or brownouts caused by high-cost, high-demand summer heat.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2020
• More than 100 San Diego firefighters are in isolation due to the coronavirus, prompting department leaders to put together an emergency brownout plan outlining which fire crews will be idled if staffing shortages demand it.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2022
• Periods of high demand, such as a prolonged heat wave, can trigger regional imbalances in electricity supply and demand, leaving consumers to contend with price spikes and blackouts or brownouts.
  — Charles Bayless and, WSJ, 4 June 2018
• As the field of burnout research expanded, subcategories proliferated: wear-out, brownout, frenetic burnout, underchallenged burnout.
  — Clayton Dalton, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2021
• That means that North Korea earned more hard currency but had less power for its people, potentially exacerbating shortages that regular visitors say have caused increasingly severe brownouts in recent months.
  — Jeremy Page, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
• In the same way that high-energy appliances will be disproportionately affected when voltage levels drop during a metropolitan brownout, even small reductions in mitochondrial function can have large effects on the brain, Wallace says.
  — Diana Kwon, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2021
• Gensse also simulated an out-of-control flight in brownout conditions, resembling limited pilot visibility.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2021
• The advanced autopilot, which represents a significant evolution from from previous versions, also helps modulate hovers and landings, even easing descents into brownout or whiteout conditions when visibility drops to zero.
  — Eric Adams, WIRED, 31 May 2018

Last Updated: 4 Sep 2024