How to Use voltage in a Sentence

voltage

noun
  • We measured the change in voltage across the circuit.
  • More than 200 spans of high voltage lines were knocked down and had to be put back up.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 16 June 2022
  • So as the voltage changes, the emission spectra changes.
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • The high-voltage wires must be kept away from the towers that support them.
    Katherine Blunt, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
  • In fact, less than 50% of EV fires involve the high voltage battery.
    USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The latest shutdown came at the peak of the winter season, and has been blamed on a voltage surge.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Keep in Mind The transformer is not included with the low voltage set.
    Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 June 2023
  • The transformer is not included with the low voltage set.
    Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The lions share of the Tesla grid today is not high voltage.
    Morgan Korn, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • As the demand exceeds supply, there’ll be a voltage drop, and the power plants get out of sync with the grid.
    Anna Blaustein, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2022
  • And then Elia raises the voltage, and his brain really would seem to be wiped.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 15 Mar. 2023
  • High-voltage power lines were downed and propane tanks were set on fire, according to the feed.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2022
  • The problem came from a transfer switch that was not getting enough voltage to fire.
    Pete Iacobelli, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
  • As the band ratcheted the excitement up with its powerful grooves, the voltage in the air of club asia reached its peak.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2023
  • My only comment is to note that the unit uses high voltage.
    Josie Howell | Jhowell@al.com, al, 7 June 2022
  • But Sabu was able to buck these conventions through, in no small part, the sheer voltage of his charisma.
    Hazlitt, 29 Nov. 2023
  • To avoid any danger for you or your four-legged friend, choose a low-voltage electric blanket to lower the risk of a shock.
    Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The rest is up in the air and parts of it are outdated, meaning it was built in the first half of the last century and of a lower voltage.
    Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 16 May 2023
  • However, Gamers Nexus found that the update failed to restrict the SoC voltage.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 16 May 2023
  • Applying a small voltage to the STM tip makes electrons tunnel across the gap.
    IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2023
  • But there’s still a considerable amount of voltage flowing through the third rails of last year’s midterms.
    Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
  • This stops the device from passing voltage through the mic’s internals.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2022
  • But the thought of using low-voltage electricity on my skin?
    Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 22 Oct. 2022
  • And to achieve a clean grid by 2050, experts believe that more than one million miles of high-voltage transmission lines will have to be added to the grid.
    Mario Loyola, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022
  • This is where pairs diverge: voltage/power, and the quantity and placement of the heat-source layer.
    Field & Stream Commerce Team, Field & Stream, 2 Aug. 2023
  • That’s double the voltage and quintuple the watt-hours of many capable e-bikes.
    Nicolas Stecher, Robb Report, 25 June 2022
  • As a horror movie, Talk is cheap thrills, done cleverly and with an abundance of voltage.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2023
  • Our next high-voltage connection would be some 377 miles away.
    David Beard, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Other times the low voltage has ruined a TV, a microwave and a six-month-old laptop her son had bought with his savings.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Then Robin takes over, and the film changes tenor once more from a comedy of officialdom to a high-voltage love story.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 10 Aug. 2022

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