How to Use renewable in a Sentence

renewable

adjective
Definition of renewablenext
Synonyms for renewablenext
  • Wind and water are renewable fuel sources.
  • Forests are renewable natural resources, but they must be treated with care.
  • The brand has also tripled its use of renewable plastics in less than three years.
    — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Two decades have passed since the first state law was passed to force a shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
    — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • On the one hand, there are real gains in renewable energy.
    — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • For more than a decade, renewable energy has been thought of as a low-cost alternative for the Texas grid.
    — Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 3 May 2023
  • The deal calls for tripling the use of renewable energy, and offshore wind will be crucial to meeting that target.
    — Jennifer McDermott, Fortune Europe, 4 Jan. 2024
  • But there's more to credit for the grid's surplus than just renewable energy.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • But, for some, having a stone made with renewable energy is something to brag about.
    — Yusuf Khan, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Plus, it’s made from renewable rubber tree wood, and for every tree used to build this toy, another one is planted.
    — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Then when the interest in renewable energy began to rise, the oil and gas industry was seen as the enemy.
    — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 21 June 2023
  • Even as solar and wind farms sprout up around the world, however, the very idea of renewable energy has come under attack in Australia.
    — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Vast arrays of seagoing turbines are now a common sight along many shores, and a major source of renewable electric power.
    — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 13 May 2023
  • Merrillville is set to shine a light on renewable energy with a more than 300-acre solar farm slated for the town’s panhandle.
    — Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The state is steeply increasing its production of renewable energy while usage has reached an all-time high.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 7 July 2023
  • At the time, it was envisioned that renewable fuels would eventually be made from waste products—cornstalks, say, or wood chips.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The doormat's use of renewable coconut husks may be an attractive point for anyone looking to be more conscious with their purchases.
    — Jamie Weissman, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 June 2023
  • Going electric would shift those emissions to the cleanest grid in the country; almost all of Vermont’s electricity comes from renewable sources.
    — Tik Root, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The problem for the nuclear industry is that SMRs, while a good idea, remain unproven, and renewable energy—which is very much proven to work—keeps getting cheaper.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The problem is finding enough renewable energy to meet AI’s rising needs in the near term, instead of turning to planet-heating fossil fuels.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Read more Just for subscribers: Deep-sea mining could help fuel renewable energy.
    — Jane Onyanga-Omara Julius Lasin usa Today, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
  • There was no reason to believe that creativity was a renewable resource.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The deal also calls for tripling the use of renewable energy and doubling energy efficiency.
    — Seth Borenstein, David Keyton, Jamey Keaten and Sibi Arasu The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 14 Dec. 2023
  • In turn, this could affect how much renewable energy capacity is built in the coming years, the report suggested.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 15 May 2023
  • The recent boom in renewable energy has impacted the coal industry.
    — Mark Strassmann, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • In the classroom, Roberts and his students have been studying how such rhetoric can stop renewable energy projects in their tracks—despite experts who say recent whale deaths have no connection to wind power.
    — Molly Taft, The New Republic, 21 July 2023
  • The same evergreen that filled your home with holiday cheer and the scent of pine is a renewable resource that can be turned into mulch or compost, the former being the most popular way of recycling Christmas trees.
    — Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2023
  • That’s because while hydrogen is used to store renewable energy, it in turn must be physically stored.
    — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Manchin sharply criticized the announcement and said limiting oil and gas sales would result in fewer renewable energy leases under the terms of the climate law.
    — Bymatthew Daly, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The organization attributed part of that growth to the rapid increase in renewable energy to address climate change.
    — Ivan Penn and Ana Swanson, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023

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