How to Use turbine in a Sentence

turbine

noun

• The project has installed nine turbines and is in the process of installing the 10th.
  — Steve Leblanc, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2024
• But the most common way to spin a turbine is to pump steam through it.
  — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
• Still, the turbines are a clear — and for some, bitter — sign that times have changed.
  — Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
• With its huge crane, the ship hoists the turbine pieces onto its own deck.
  — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• The next step is to make some moderate-sized turbine blades and test them in the field.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Aug. 2022
• In the best case, a turbine can be assembled in about two and a half days.
  — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• Wind turbine makers have lost some of the wind in their sails this year.
  — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2021
• Some of the turbines caught fire, sending plumes of smoke into the air.
  — Hannah Fingerhut, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024
• In Europe, turbine blades have been used to build bridges.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 13 Feb. 2023
• Water is piped through hot rock and returned to the surface in the form of steam that drives a turbine.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Apr. 2022
• But on these two turbines, this is not part of the grant funding that's available right now.
  — The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2024
• Throughout the area, wind farm turbines spun rapidly in the wind and blinding rain.
  — CBS News, 7 May 2024
• That would require more than 2,000 turbines in the water.
  — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2024
• Madonna was the commercial turbine that drove Sire through the ’80s.
  — Chris Morris, Variety, 2 Apr. 2023
• The internal turbine spins the huge fan, pushing the jet forward.
  — Howard Slutsken, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
• Anecdotes abound of elk and pronghorn strolling around turbines or napping in their shade.
  — Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• The turbine will then run off of the steam and produce electricity.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 8 Feb. 2023
• The modular layout allows for most of the turbine to be built off-site and then towed out to sea.
  — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 28 June 2021
• Now, a total of five turbines have been installed there too.
  — Jennifer McDermott, Fortune Europe, 4 Jan. 2024
• In other words, as the wave compresses the air in three chambers inside the buoy, the turbine spins.
  — David Szondy, New Atlas, 26 July 2024
• Old wind-turbine blades are getting a new lease on life—in cement.
  — Dieter Holger, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2022
• There’s a lot of labor and time involved in installing skyscraper-size turbines miles off the coast.
  — Molly Taft, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
• Dangerous shards of the turbine from Vineyard Wind are still washing up on the beach.
  — Andrew Follett, National Review, 24 July 2024
• Of those deaths, 136 were attributed to the eagle being struck by a turbine blade.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2022
• The airline later found a bird had been ingested by the turbine.
  — Benjamin Katz, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2022
• Whirring turbines bashed fish that attempted to scoot past.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2023
• The job is not just about returning turbines to service.
  — Caitlin Kelly, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2024
• The still-nascent field of airborne wind energy (AWE) has a solution: Swap out the turbine for a kite on a string.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Jan. 2024
• The turbines are supported by jacket foundations, rather than the monopiles used at South Fork Wind.
  — Pippa Stevens, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2024
• The power plant does not consume the water, instead sending it through its turbines before putting it back in the river.
  — Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024