How to Use watt in a Sentence

watt

noun

• The old type of hot air hand dryer was at least 3,000 watts and takes a long time.
  — Lauren Goode, Wired, 10 Mar. 2020
• The joule is the watt-second, in contrast to the watt-hour or kilowatt-hour.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• The worst thing to do is rush out and replace equipment just to save a few watts.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Jan. 1994
• The panels provide as much as 700 watts on a clear day.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 27 Nov. 2018
• The man with the big guns and the million-watt smile has come a long way from his days as wrestling superstar The Rock.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 2 Apr. 2018
• This new embrace of high-watt hues is hardly a male thing.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2021
• Note that a load of less than 30 watts won’t register on the display.
  — Dallas News, 9 Apr. 2020
• And the MagSafe puck inside it charges an iPhone almost as fast, at 14 watts, as the standalone version of the puck.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 12 Sep. 2023
• These take up space, so Razer had to trim the battery size from the 80 watt-hours of the top models, 65 watt hours in the base model.
  — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 10 Oct. 2018
• For heavier use, look for a microwave with at least 1,000 watts of power.
  — Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping, 31 Aug. 2023
• If the energy is measured in joules and time in seconds, then the power would be in units of watts.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 4 May 2024
• The total system required just over half a watt of power to stay aloft.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 July 2024
• To ring in her 22nd, Bella Hadid pushed things to the limit by piling on heaps of mega-watt gems.
  — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2018
• The garden’s 30 watt LED grow lights mimics sunlight and helps the plants grow quickly.
  — Rachel Ahrnsen, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2024
• That will reduce global prices 35 percent, to 24 cents a watt by yearend.
  — Chris Martin, Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2018
• Keep in Mind At a maximum of 2400 watts, this machine isn’t as high-powered as some of the others on the list.
  — Laura Denby, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Nov. 2023
• Back then, the cost of buying a one-watt solar panel was $77; today the cost has fallen to 30 cents.
  — Nathanael Johnson, WIRED, 9 July 2018
• At the same time, there's a new Green 500 list, which measures machines in terms of performance per watt.
  — Michael J. Miller, PCMAG, 2 June 2022
• Barnard stepped back and ordered electrodes placed on each side of the heart and the current (25 watt-seconds) applied.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 11 Dec. 2017
• The global price has plunged to 14 cents a watt, down 37 percent since January.
  — Jonathan Weisman Christian Monterrosa, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023
• The large-capacity battery pack (240 watt-hours) does take a while to charge.
  — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2020
• All month long, the HSO plants itself outdoors, enlists some hi-watt stars and beams sound waves into the night air.
  — Michael Hamad, courant.com, 28 June 2018
• Then, add gold to the center for a high-watt highlight and copper through the crease and along the lower lash line for depth and dimension.
  — Amber Kallor, Marie Claire, 16 Nov. 2017
• The testing will cover a 30- and 10-meter sprint, medicine ball toss, vertical jump and a watt bike test.
  — Anthony Sorci, sacbee.com, 23 June 2017
• That LED uses 8.5 watts to produce the same amount of light as a 60-watt incandescent.
  — Severin Borenstein, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2017
• To calculate watt hours, multiply the volts (V) by the ampere hours (Ah).
  — Jill Schildhouse, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2023
• Bueno, doñita, Mario hesitates, flashing her a mega-watt smile—too bad about the teeth.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2020
• The fittest women could do 120 watts or more, which is what people put out at the start of a normal workout, Baker said.
  — NBC News, 14 Mar. 2018
• Both your backseat and the bed both have AC outlets capable of delivering up to 2,400 watts.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
• Even at that, the panels will generate only about 700 watts of electricity, or roughly the energy required to run a small microwave oven or a coffee maker.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024