How to Use voltage in a Sentence
voltage
noun- We measured the change in voltage across the circuit.
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More than 200 spans of high voltage lines were knocked down and had to be put back up.
— Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 16 June 2022 -
So as the voltage changes, the emission spectra changes.
— Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023 -
The high-voltage wires must be kept away from the towers that support them.
— Katherine Blunt, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022 -
The ions get charged up after voltage is applied to the salt.
— Elizabeth Howell, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022 -
They’ll be stranded on the side of the road, or sit for hours charging at low voltage.
— Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2024 -
No garage, and there are high-voltage cables about a block away.
— BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2021 -
In fact, less than 50% of EV fires involve the high voltage battery.
— USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023 -
The latest shutdown came at the peak of the winter season, and has been blamed on a voltage surge.
— Harold Maass, The Week, 24 Jan. 2023 -
Keep in Mind The transformer is not included with the low voltage set.
— Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 June 2023 -
Doubling the voltage reduces the amount of current, and thus heat.
— Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 6 Oct. 2021 -
The transformer is not included with the low voltage set.
— Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2022 -
The lions share of the Tesla grid today is not high voltage.
— Morgan Korn, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2023 -
As the demand exceeds supply, there’ll be a voltage drop, and the power plants get out of sync with the grid.
— Anna Blaustein, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2022 -
And then Elia raises the voltage, and his brain really would seem to be wiped.
— Evan Romano, Men's Health, 15 Mar. 2023 -
High-voltage power lines were downed and propane tanks were set on fire, according to the feed.
— BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2022 -
By changing the voltage across the plates, the magnitude of the electric field will also change.
— Rhett Allain, Wired, 3 Aug. 2021 -
The problem came from a transfer switch that was not getting enough voltage to fire.
— Pete Iacobelli, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023 -
As the band ratcheted the excitement up with its powerful grooves, the voltage in the air of club asia reached its peak.
— Billboard Japan, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2023 -
My only comment is to note that the unit uses high voltage.
— Josie Howell | Jhowell@al.com, al, 7 June 2022 -
If available, set the amp’s voltage at the highest setting.
— Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024 -
But Sabu was able to buck these conventions through, in no small part, the sheer voltage of his charisma.
— Hazlitt, 29 Nov. 2023 -
The city—and perhaps the whole country—operates at a low voltage.
— Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2021 -
To avoid any danger for you or your four-legged friend, choose a low-voltage electric blanket to lower the risk of a shock.
— Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2023 -
The rest is up in the air and parts of it are outdated, meaning it was built in the first half of the last century and of a lower voltage.
— Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 16 May 2023 -
However, Gamers Nexus found that the update failed to restrict the SoC voltage.
— Michael Kan, PCMAG, 16 May 2023 -
Applying a small voltage to the STM tip makes electrons tunnel across the gap.
— IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2023 -
But there’s still a considerable amount of voltage flowing through the third rails of last year’s midterms.
— Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023 -
To accomplish this, the team built an anode opposite the cathode and applied extremely high voltage.
— Michael Franco, New Atlas, 11 Oct. 2024 -
Dealers will update the high voltage battery pack software and replace the battery pack assembly, if necessary, free of charge.
— Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
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