How to Use substation in a Sentence

substation

noun
  • And there are plans to build a new Southfield police substation on the site.
    Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Video from outside the substation shows Cortez sitting in the car talking on the phone.
    Emilie Eaton, ExpressNews.com, 27 June 2019
  • This storm would be the perfect time to hit some substations and knock out power.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The voltage is reduced there and sent on to other substations around the city.
    Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 15 July 2019
  • For Kathryn Henkel, the substation outage was a nerve-racking blow.
    oregonlive, 30 Dec. 2022
  • For Kathryn Henkel, the substation outage was a nerve-wracking blow.
    Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The 85-foot (26-meter) vessel was dwarfed by the substation, which is almost the size of a football field.
    Will Wade, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • That’s the substations and wires and poles that bring the power literally to your door.
    Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The first district police substation is in that block, on the northeast corner of Fifth and E Streets.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 June 2019
  • Local news footage showed a large plume of black smoke and flames erupting from the substation as crews assembled in the rain.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
  • The first strikes at the substation damaged a number of transformers.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The key was a substation facility near the town of Moapa.
    Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The city also agreed to move the Providence Police substation on Cushing Street, paid for by the city.
    Steph MacHado, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • One man died at the gas station, which is next door to a Broward Sheriff’s Office substation, Kane said.
    Tonya Alanez, sun-sentinel.com, 24 July 2019
  • The 66-year-old suspect was found by a deputy sitting in his car in the parking lot of a nearby sheriff's substation.
    Steve Helling, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The 67-year-old suspect was found by a deputy sitting in his car in the parking lot of a nearby sheriff's substation.
    Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The outage was caused by a fire in an electrical substation.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2019
  • At the offshore site, crews assembled a substation over the summer.
    Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • At the Kapowsin substation, their actions cause arcing and sparking, the complaint said.
    Gene Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The estimated cost of the substation damage is in the millions, the sheriff said Sunday.
    Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 5 Dec. 2022
  • According to the complaint, the pair hit the first three substations early on Christmas Day, then struck the last — the Kapowsin substation — that evening.
    CBS News, 3 Jan. 2023
  • At the police substation that night, the parents were taken into a room where their son was being held.
    Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2024
  • At the police substation that night, the parents were taken into a room where their son was being held.
    Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2024
  • The woman later showed up to an SAPD substation and was questioned by police.
    Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 14 May 2021
  • There’s a substation there, but part of that property is unused.
    Page Leggett, Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The terminal will host a substation for Empire Wind 1 and serve as a home base for maintenance work.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 28 Mar. 2024
  • In the early days of the transition, an explosion and a fire at a main power substation knocked out a lot of power.
    New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The new substation project would need to be completed by the end of 2025 to avoid issues, Lucore said in January.
    Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 26 Mar. 2024
  • At the time of writing, Heathrow remained shut after a fire at an electricity substation that caused a power outage on Friday.
    Lucy Handley, CNBC, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Seventy firefighters and 10 engines were dispatched to the substation on Nestles Avenue in Hayes.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025

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