How to Use dynamo in a Sentence

dynamo

noun
  • To be sure, Walz is hardly a dynamo who will guarantee Democrats’ fortunes.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Plus, these dynamos will enable phones to shrink to the size of a box of Tic Tacs.
    Elle Decor Staff, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
  • Not every point guard has to be a pick-and-roll dynamo.
    Ben Golliver and Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The disruptive dynamo leads the Pac-12 and is sixth in the country in steals per game (2.8).
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
  • But if the dynamo isn’t the cause, how might a magnetar form?
    Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Every four years, there's a new dynamo in the pool at the Summer Olympics.
    Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2019
  • The same can be said of the lineup, with Betts serving as a top-of-the-order dynamo.
    Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2019
  • A 5-foot-10 dynamo who had the speed and elusiveness to drop jaws.
    Pat Disabato, Daily Southtown, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Welker took the league by storm as an unknown 26-year-old dynamo in the slot.
    BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Fans were excited to see what the 5-foot-1 dynamo would do in Tokyo.
    Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 8 July 2023
  • The front light is wired to a separate front-hub dynamo, not the battery.
    Thomas Ricker, The Verge, 17 July 2019
  • O’Rourke ran a dynamo of a campaign for Senate in 2018 against Ted Cruz and came up just short.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The 19-year veteran wrapped the second-year dynamo in a hug.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The 4-foot-8-inch dynamo has won five Olympic medals, including four gold.
    Washington Post, 22 July 2021
  • However, the dribbling dynamo's shot was tame, and span wide of Forster's far-post.
    SI.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • Diego Schwartzman, a 5-foot-7 dynamo in a land of athletic giants, has won the hearts of fans here.
    Helene Elliott, latimes.com, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Lesli is just a dynamo, and Alex Gansa, our showrunner, is brilliant and a very good leader.
    Zac Posen, Town & Country, 4 Feb. 2020
  • For so long, Harbaugh was a dynamo with megawatt power.
    Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2020
  • The dynamo from Washington, D.C., has learned a lot about himself these past few years.
    Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The dynamo inside our own planet Earth is set to keep roiling for billions of years to come.
    Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The spinning dynamo is just one half of the equation, however.
    Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2017
  • The plot centers on a roboticist aunt, her orphaned niece and the high-tech dynamo who comes into their lives (not for the better).
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Actress and YouTube dynamo Lilly Singh—queen of more than 2 billion views—shoots nine videos a week.
    Vogue, 10 Sep. 2018
  • The Lucid Air may be a luxury sedan, but it's powered by a dynamo.
    Fox News Staff, Fox News, 3 July 2022
  • Least of all the director here, a pocket-sized Tatar dynamo called Taras Voznyak, who meets me in his office.
    Waldemar Januszczak For The Times, Robb Report, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The assistant coach, 8-year-old Riley Wooten, is a dynamo.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Not even six months removed from his last leukemia treatment, the wiry guard has grown into a 3-point dynamo and go-to closer.
    Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The biggest boost of all was midfield dynamo Joe Allen, signing a new four year contract.
    SI.com, 8 July 2018
  • The Hull sisters took turns guarding Harmon, too, using their height and length to tower over the 5-foot-6 dynamo.
    Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2022
  • This study aimed to prove that the dynamo actually begins near the sun's surface.
    Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 24 May 2024

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