How to Use wind turbine in a Sentence

wind turbine

noun

• The first wind turbine in the U.S. was installed 44 years ago.
  — L.m. Sixel, Houston Chronicle, 9 Dec. 2019
• Melted sections of the wind turbine fell to the ground.
  — Mike Carter, The Seattle Times, 22 July 2019
• 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
• Watch as builders dig, frame, and fill the foundation for a 250-foot wind turbine.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2020
• 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
• Workers erect four wind turbines, then the ship returns to shore for more parts.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2019
• The solar panels and wind turbine on Eleventh Street came down.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2021
• That is not how wind turbines, which can store power, work.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2019
• The electric car is ready to go, charged by the solar panels or wind turbine on your roof.
  — Patrick Lucas Austin, Time, 25 July 2019
• The largest wind turbine tower Jackson works on is about 344 feet high.
  — Morgan Smith, CNBC, 27 Nov. 2024
• 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
• There is, however, a small wind turbine that can be used to charge a phone or laptop, the email read.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 16 Jan. 2020
• The engineers have dropped the price of a solar panel or a wind turbine 90 percent in the last decade.
  — CBS News, 12 Aug. 2020
• 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
• The procedure then takes about 90 minutes to de-ice a wind turbine.
  — Devon Link, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2021
• Down the road, the sprawling landfill bustles and a dozen wind turbines spin gently on the horizon.
  — Chris Martin, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2020
• In addition to the solar panels, the Clearys also have two low-speed wind turbines on the roof.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 31 Oct. 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
• For his home, Tan designed a large, overhanging roof and placed wind turbines on top to draw more hot air out, and cool air in.
  — John Defterios, CNN, 12 Aug. 2019
• Here, Amano can direct winds of up to 60 miles per hour at small wind turbine prototypes.
  — Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2021
• Some rail cargo is too large to easily load onto a truck, such as the huge blades used to build wind turbines.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2019
• 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 has the effect of lowering what's called the specific power of the wind turbine.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Last year, Myanmar was believed to be the world’s largest exporter of certain heavy rare earths, including dysprosium and terbium, which are used in items like electric vehicles and wind turbines.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
• Understanding where and when bats migrate could help wind turbine operators mitigate collisions with the blades, which are the cause of millions of bat deaths globally each year.
  — Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 16 Feb 2025