How to Use turbine in a Sentence

turbine

noun
Definition of turbinenext
Synonyms for turbinenext
  • The project has installed nine turbines and is in the process of installing the 10th.
    — Steve Leblanc, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Still, the turbines are a clear — and for some, bitter — sign that times have changed.
    — Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
  • With its huge crane, the ship hoists the turbine pieces onto its own deck.
    — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The next step is to make some moderate-sized turbine blades and test them in the field.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Aug. 2022
  • In the best case, a turbine can be assembled in about two and a half days.
    — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • In Europe, turbine blades have been used to build bridges.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 13 Feb. 2023
  • That would require more than 2,000 turbines in the water.
    — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Madonna was the commercial turbine that drove Sire through the ’80s.
    — Chris Morris, Variety, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The internal turbine spins the huge fan, pushing the jet forward.
    — Howard Slutsken, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Anecdotes abound of elk and pronghorn strolling around turbines or napping in their shade.
    — Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The turbine will then run off of the steam and produce electricity.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Now, a total of five turbines have been installed there too.
    — Jennifer McDermott, Fortune Europe, 4 Jan. 2024
  • There’s a lot of labor and time involved in installing skyscraper-size turbines miles off the coast.
    — Molly Taft, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Whirring turbines bashed fish that attempted to scoot past.
    — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The still-nascent field of airborne wind energy (AWE) has a solution: Swap out the turbine for a kite on a string.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Jan. 2024
  • When the wind is not blowing too hard, the workers out at sea can assemble a turbine in less than three days.
    — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The company this week blamed the reduction on the need to overhaul a pipeline turbine.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 July 2022
  • At the site of a new wind farm close to the world’s largest open-pit gold mine, workers were in the process of installing a fourth turbine recently, and there were at least 107 more to go.
    — Max Bearak Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • As recently as a few months ago, the water in Lake Powell was so low that there almost wasn’t enough to turn the dam’s turbines.
    — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 6 June 2023
  • The Abrams tank weighs 60 tons or more, depending on the variant, and uses JP-8, a jet fuel, in a gas-turbine engine.
    — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
  • While the company has been working on a broad review of the turbine unit, final findings have yet to come through.
    — Wilfried Eckl-Dorna, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The fan is impressively quiet and runs with a four-blade turbine that pushes lots of air through.
    — Terri Peters, Parents, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Those four turbines could generate up to 1600 megawatts of power.
    — Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 14 July 2023
  • The Utopia sticks with butterfly-opening doors and sits on alloy wheels—21 inches at the front and 22 at the back—with turbine shaped vanes to channel hot air away from the brakes.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 12 Sep. 2022
  • There was no telling what toll such an extreme pace would take on the ships’ turbines when sustained for 453 nautical miles.
    — Longreads, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Leaders in the beach town have long expressed worries that the turbines will be too close to the shoreline, damaging tourism and hurting wildlife.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The students step off the pier into the chilly bay waters to learn how to safely abandon a vessel or the turbine in an emergency.
    — Jennifer McDermott, ajc, 4 Sep. 2022
  • The flows were halted on Wednesday for checks at the only functioning turbine that helps to pump gas into the pipeline.
    — Elena Mazneva, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2022
  • When constructed, the tops of the turbines will barely be visible from the islands, the company says.
    — Stanley Reed and Ivan Penn, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
  • But another main concern is how the turbines will affect their health.
    — Popular Science, 26 July 2023

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