How to Use wind turbine in a Sentence

wind turbine

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• The average lifespan of a wind turbine can be up to 20 years.
  — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 23 June 2023
• The wind turbine judders to life with a boom that echoes down its central shaft.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, The Atlantic, 20 May 2022
• And to a whirling, beautiful shot of a wind turbine that’s capped off by a dead bird falling from the sky.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2022
• The solar panels and wind turbine on Eleventh Street came down.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2021
• The largest wind turbine tower Jackson works on is about 344 feet high.
  — Morgan Smith,mickey Todiwala, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2024
• Last year, the wind turbine price in China dropped almost 40%.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 30 June 2021
• All this for a movie starring Tom Hardy as a steroidal big toe who sounds like a James Mason wind turbine.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2022
• Hundreds of thousands of birds are killed each year by wind turbines across the United States.
  — Jim Talamonti | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 27 July 2024
• California will be the first region in the U.S. to use floating wind turbines.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
• An entrance to the project near the school was nixed and a windmill was reduced in height from 76 feet to 36 feet with a prohibition on a wind turbine.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
• This technology has come a long way since Charles Brush built the first wind turbine in the backyard of his Ohio mansion in 1888.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2023
• Trump was ordered to pay the Scottish government's legal bills for the wind turbine fight in 2019.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022
• But the shallow waters east of London are already packed with wind turbines.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2023
• Since then, numerous wind turbine projects have been green-lit offshore and across the country.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2023
• The world’s first recyclable wind turbine blades are spinning at a German wind farm.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2022
• Winds were expected to remain gusty Winds in the area were fierce overnight —but not unusual for the area that’s dotted with wind turbines just to the north.
  — Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 2 June 2024
• As waves grew and gusts increased, a wind turbine bobbed gently, its blades spinning with a gentle woosh.
  — David Sharp and Jennifer McDermott, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2024
• There’s no question that electric lines kill birds — as do wind turbines and solar farms.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• That will mean great variability in the levels of power supplied by the wind turbines.
  — Matthias Mueller, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2023
• The pilot of the nearly 80-foot work boat gunned its powerful engines, pinning the bow against the base of a towering wind turbine in the smooth North Sea.
  — Stanley Reed Francesca Jones, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2022
• Bolton Valley, in Vermont, features a 121-foot-tall wind turbine.
  — Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2024
• Once guests cross the bridge and enter the new area, in clear view will be the district’s power source, a floating wind turbine that sits atop old fishing net tannery.
  — Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2023
• But the floating wind turbines that are needed for deep waters face salty wind gusts and large waves, not to mention the immense challenge of installing them in the first place.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 May 2023
• South Dakota Horses grazing on grassy field with a wind turbine in South Dakota.
  — Scott Cohn, CNBC, 26 July 2024
• The blades of a wind turbine are typically designed to be replaced about every 20 years.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 26 Aug. 2022
• But as wind turbines began to dot the landscape, and the local tax base increased, the district of about 280 students was able to issue a bond to pay for a new school building.
  — Anna Phillips, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2023
• The wind turbine at the tip of the Hull peninsula hasn’t been working since April 2021, and officials are deciding whether to repair it or take it down.
  — Johanna Seltz, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2022
• There is no evidence that wind turbines are connected to whale deaths.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024
• Thanks to consistently strong winds out at sea, these turbines can produce energy more reliably and efficiently than onshore wind turbines.
  — New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2024
• That includes pushing for a domestic supply base to produce components for batteries, solar panels and wind turbines, or things like electrolyzers to make hydrogen from water and electricity.
  — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024