How to Use substation in a Sentence

substation

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  • For Kathryn Henkel, the substation outage was a nerve-racking blow.
    — oregonlive, 30 Dec. 2022
  • For Kathryn Henkel, the substation outage was a nerve-wracking blow.
    — Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The 85-foot (26-meter) vessel was dwarfed by the substation, which is almost the size of a football field.
    — Will Wade, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Local news footage showed a large plume of black smoke and flames erupting from the substation as crews assembled in the rain.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
  • The first strikes at the substation damaged a number of transformers.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The key was a substation facility near the town of Moapa.
    — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The city also agreed to move the Providence Police substation on Cushing Street, paid for by the city.
    — Steph MacHado, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The 66-year-old suspect was found by a deputy sitting in his car in the parking lot of a nearby sheriff's substation.
    — Steve Helling, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The 67-year-old suspect was found by a deputy sitting in his car in the parking lot of a nearby sheriff's substation.
    — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2023
  • At the offshore site, crews assembled a substation over the summer.
    — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • At the Kapowsin substation, their actions cause arcing and sparking, the complaint said.
    — Gene Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The estimated cost of the substation damage is in the millions, the sheriff said Sunday.
    — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 5 Dec. 2022
  • According to the complaint, the pair hit the first three substations early on Christmas Day, then struck the last — the Kapowsin substation — that evening.
    — CBS News, 3 Jan. 2023
  • At the police substation that night, the parents were taken into a room where their son was being held.
    — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2024
  • There’s a substation there, but part of that property is unused.
    — Page Leggett, Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The terminal will host a substation for Empire Wind 1 and serve as a home base for maintenance work.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 28 Mar. 2024
  • According to the complaint, the pair hit the first three substations early Saturday, then struck the last -- the Kapowsin substation -- that evening.
    — Arkansas Online, 4 Jan. 2023
  • When an electrical surge and explosion at a Con Ed substation in Queens lit up the sky in December of 2018, many were sure the blue haze was a sign of alien life.
    — Alexis Oatman, cleveland, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The two boys entered a power substation to hide from police in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, and were electrocuted.
    — Time, 29 June 2023
  • No arrests have been made in connection with the substation shootings.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Martinez said the goal is for every Dallas police substation to have at least one unmarked or ghost car.
    — Dallas News, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The location is less than a mile from a community park and a sheriff’s substation.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2024
  • In May 2022 it was relocated to a space that’s less than one-tenth of the size of the old floor, which was sold to Commonwealth Edison to house an electrical substation.
    — Elizabeth Stanton, Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Zhao was arrested in the parking lot of a sheriff’s substation in Half Moon Bay shortly after the attacks.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Christopher Langley and his family live less than a mile away from the substation.
    — oregonlive, 30 Dec. 2022
  • All repairs to the substation have been completed, Hinkle said.
    — Alexandria Brown, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The mother carried her to a nearby San Antonio police substation on Prue Road to seek help.
    — Elizabeth Zavala, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Oct. 2022
  • In the meantime, a temporary substation has been set up, and the neighborhood has started up a watch program in hopes of reducing crime.
    — Josh Snyder, arkansasonline.com, 31 Mar. 2024
  • The pilot attempted to land in an open field to avoid hitting a power substation, I-15 or any nearby structures.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Clichy was the birthplace of weeks of riots in 2005 that shook France, prompted by the deaths of two teenagers electrocuted in a power substation while fleeing from police.
    — John Leicester, Sylvie Corbet and Lewis Joly, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2023

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