wind turbine

noun

: a wind-driven turbine for generating electricity

Examples of wind turbine in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The plans for New England Wind call for up to 129 wind turbines that could supply as much as 2,600 megawatts of clean energy to power more than 900,000 homes each year. — ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026

Electric vehicles, wind turbines, massive data centers, and expanding power grids all run on the red metal. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026

The sun sets on wind turbines near a corn field owned by Farmland Reserve on May 29, 2025, in Arrowsmith. — John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026

Fields of solar panels blanket parts of Inner Mongolia, while the slender silhouettes of wind turbines spin above grazing sheep. — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1909, in the meaning defined above