How to Use power plant in a Sentence

power plant

noun
  • The power plant has been caught in the crossfire of the war.
    Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2022
  • The team fished near the power plant and the inlet in 20 to 30 feet of water.
    Frank Sargeant, al, 30 June 2021
  • The line once tied a nearby power plant into the state’s grid, but the plant closed in 2001.
    Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The steam from the cooling towers of the power plant that the coal feeds rises on the horizon.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune Europe, 9 July 2024
  • But at the back of her mind is always the fate of the nuclear-power plant.
    Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The power plant is installed in a vast cavernous space.
    Stanley Reed Matilde Viegas, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Beyond the fields was the power plant and then the steelworks followed by the shipyard, the flour mill and the gasworks.
    Marc Myers, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
  • There were father and son at the power plant, both in hard hats and grinning.
    Brittny Mejia Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Is Ohio’s air about to get cleaner with the closure of an old coal power plant?
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Though the city revolved around two of the biggest power plants on the Volga, all its roads were dark.
    Elettra Pauletto, Harper's Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The power plant repeatedly has been caught in the crossfire of the war in Ukraine.
    Adam Schreck, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Oct. 2022
  • That’s because the flood took out a power plant that was on the East Side of Manhattan.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The power plant with the highest greenhouse gas emissions is the 27-year-old Bełchatów plant in Poland.
    Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The power plant repeatedly has been caught in the crossfire of the war.
    Jon Gambrell and Adam Schreck, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
  • For decades, Vistra leased the land to Texas at no cost and used the lake as a cooling reservoir for a power plant.
    Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The electric car might still one day become a power plant on wheels.
    IEEE Spectrum, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Since the power plant was finished in 1976, this place has sat empty.
    Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2022
  • On the southwest edge of town, the power plant and mine punctuate the grasslands where deer and elk roam.
    Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • And leaks can occur at any point in the process, from extraction out of the ground to the moment where the gas is burned in a power plant.
    Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 9 July 2021
  • In the north of England, in a tiny village called Drax, there is a power plant, also called Drax.
    Sarah Miller, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Disrupting this power plant – with the help of a puffer fish – showed a breakthrough way to fight the tumors.
    Michael Franco, New Atlas, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The twin minarets of the al-Khaldi mosque, and the twin smokestacks of the Dorad power plant in the Israeli city of Ashkelon, less than seven miles up the beach.
    Matt Gutman, ABC News, 25 May 2021
  • Still that’s a lot of carbon going into the air—and a lot of cash the power plants are paying for allowances.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 13 July 2023
  • The emissions would actually be closer to a fifth of those from the power plant.
    oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The city has been looking for a revenue boost since the nuclear power plant there closed in 1998.
    Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 20 May 2021
  • The company plans to build its first power plant in Virginia.
    Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
  • Grant Town was the only remaining power plant in his state that burned gob.
    New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Nukapigak’s decision to leave cost him his job at the power plant.
    Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2022
  • The Electrolux site seemed ideal to xAI: in an industrial zone, proximate to a power plant and a wastewater facility.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 13 Aug. 2025
  • There may be a current bottleneck on gas turbines for building power plants, but manufacturing is ramping up and most of the hyperscalers’ projects are a few years from coming online.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2025

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