How to Use high-voltage in a Sentence

high-voltage

adjective

• Her run is the high-voltage gallop of purpose and thrill.
  — Julia Daye, Kansas City Star, 15 Feb. 2024
• That means a 160-foot-tall, high-voltage pylon would stand in a farmer’s field about an eighth of a mile from her house.
  — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
• Pops of high-voltage pinks and blues send a shock wave through the relatively muted palette.
  — House Beautiful, 2 Mar. 2023
• Bill Hatch owns a winery that sits near the path of where PJM suggested one high-voltage line could go, though that route is still under review.
  — Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2024
• She’s known for her high-voltage blend of Latin, electronic, afro and pop sounds as well as her powerful vocals.
  — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
• Back in 2021, James lost his nose, lips, chin, front teeth and left eye after an accident while working as a high-voltage lineman.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• The driver said the temperature was neither too hot nor too cold and a high-voltage battery warning lit up.
  — Detroit Free Press, 21 Aug. 2023
• Plus, their safe low-voltage wattage provides the same light as high-voltage options but with less risk and using less energy.
  — Christina Shepherd McGuire, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 May 2024
• Above them, shrouded in smoke, was a high-voltage transmission tower.
  — John Riha, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
• At the same time, Germany will need to speed the construction of high-voltage grids linking wind farms off the coasts in the north to power-hungry factories and cities further south.
  — William Wilkes, Bloomberg.com, 25 May 2023
• The company revealed that the high-voltage battery may overheat.
  — USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
• PHEVs have all these plus electric motors, a high-voltage traction battery, and charging to contend with.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 Nov. 2023
• To make the plan work, the nation would need thousands of miles of new high-voltage transmission lines — large power lines that would span multiple grid regions.
  — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 12 June 2023
• Two were electrocuted to death while hiding in a high-voltage transformer.
  — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
• The valve, which appears to have been protected by a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire, is located within a long grassy field where high-voltage power lines run.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2024
• Projects have struggled with securing enough labor and high-voltage equipment, the report says.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 11 Sep. 2024
• Deliveries of the Taycan EV declined in the past two quarters due to a shortage of special parts including a high-voltage heater.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
• Tesla also sent a technical expert to the scene to help with high-voltage hazards and fire safety assessments.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2024
• The engine bay behind the rear axle isn't exactly expansive, and adding a high-voltage battery and electric motors had to be done thoughtfully.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 28 May 2024
• This suggests that a circuit breaker designed to protect the Rivian's high-voltage battery pack tripped.
  — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 5 Mar. 2023
• But Mercedes representatives confirmed that there's no easy way to tap into the van's high-voltage system.
  — Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2024
• Drones, equipped with AI and thermal imaging cameras, are used to inspect high-voltage lines and hard-to-reach electrical infrastructures.
  — Neil Sahota, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• The blue-violet light lures flying insects in, while the high-voltage electric grid kills them instantly upon contact.
  — Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 2 May 2024
• Nationwide, just 251 miles of high-voltage transmission lines were completed last year, a number that has been declining for a decade.
  — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• Mahalik punched a few keys below the computer display screen on the high-voltage cabinet behind us.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 29 Apr. 2023
• But because the coal plant sends power to Southern California, there is a long-distance, high-voltage transmission line already in place.
  — Henry Fountain Nina Riggio, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• Some of its high-voltage substations – key nodes that reduce the voltage of electricity so it can be transferred through power lines to homes and offices – have been restored more than 10 times, Kharchenko said.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN, 14 Apr. 2024
• Now, Eversource Energy has cut down the trees and low-growing shrubs underneath its high-voltage power lines in Manchester, say those who have maintained the trails for as many as 30 years.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2024
• Electric eels use high-voltage to track fast-moving prey Current Biology.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
• Investments tend to cover local upgrades, like installing new metering equipment, rather than installing the high-voltage transmission lines that renewable energy sources need to connect to the grid.
  — Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024