How to Use turbine in a Sentence
turbine
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The project has installed nine turbines and is in the process of installing the 10th.
—Steve Leblanc, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2024
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But the most common way to spin a turbine is to pump steam through it.
—Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
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Still, the turbines are a clear — and for some, bitter — sign that times have changed.
—Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
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With its huge crane, the ship hoists the turbine pieces onto its own deck.
—Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
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The next step is to make some moderate-sized turbine blades and test them in the field.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Aug. 2022
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In the best case, a turbine can be assembled in about two and a half days.
—Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
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Wind turbine makers have lost some of the wind in their sails this year.
—Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2021
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Some of the turbines caught fire, sending plumes of smoke into the air.
—Hannah Fingerhut, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024
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The pressure on the fluid would build up over time and could be used to drive a turbine.
—Randall Munroe, Time, 12 Sep. 2019
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The warmest part of the engine is the high-pressure turbine.
—Rob Verger, Popular Science, 14 Oct. 2020
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In Europe, turbine blades have been used to build bridges.
—Justine Calma, The Verge, 13 Feb. 2023
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Press a button on the DBS's dash, and its starter motor spins the V-12 with a turbine-like whirr.
—John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 27 May 2020
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On the other hand, some parts (like turbine wheels) are changed at times.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 21 Aug. 2020
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The blades of a sprawling turbine farm turn slowly in the distance.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2020
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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
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Wind isn’t new; thousands of turbines have dotted the hills for decades.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
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The turbine generates about a third of the power used by the system.
—Staff Report, NOLA.com, 26 Oct. 2020
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But on these two turbines, this is not part of the grant funding that's available right now.
—The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2024
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Trump abuses his power in ways that must have the founders whirring like turbines in their graves.
—Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2019
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Throughout the area, wind farm turbines spun rapidly in the wind and blinding rain.
—CBS News, 7 May 2024
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Opponents said the turbines pose health risks and are noisy.
—USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2019
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That would require more than 2,000 turbines in the water.
—Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2024
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Madonna was the commercial turbine that drove Sire through the ’80s.
—Chris Morris, Variety, 2 Apr. 2023
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The internal turbine spins the huge fan, pushing the jet forward.
—Howard Slutsken, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
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Anecdotes abound of elk and pronghorn strolling around turbines or napping in their shade.
—Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
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Even so, ClearView thinks the change in turbine supplier for the project could mean adding at least six months to the project’s timeline.
—Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 2 Dec. 2020
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The turbine will then run off of the steam and produce electricity.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 8 Feb. 2023
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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
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Dropping water levels have also allowed some of the lake’s smallmouth bass to slip through the dam’s turbines and into the Grand Canyon below.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 13 Mar. 2025
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Texas has abundant wind, and EDF Renewables has large turbine farms there cranking out carbon-free energy that is usually fed into the state's electric grid.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
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