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
  • 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
  • When the wind is not blowing too hard, the workers out at sea can assemble a turbine in less than three days.
    Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • On a recent day, the semi-submersible floating turbine was tethered to the bottom of the basin.
    David Sharp and Jennifer McDermott, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2024
  • The river had been diverted to run the giant turbines to provide electricity to Siskiyou County and parts of southern Oregon for the first time in the early 20th century.
    Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 12 Oct. 2024

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