How to Use turbine in a Sentence

turbine

noun
  • The project has installed nine turbines and is in the process of installing the 10th.
    Steve Leblanc, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But the most common way to spin a turbine is to pump steam through it.
    Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Wind turbine makers have lost some of the wind in their sails this year.
    Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Some of the turbines caught fire, sending plumes of smoke into the air.
    Hannah Fingerhut, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024
  • The pressure on the fluid would build up over time and could be used to drive a turbine.
    Randall Munroe, Time, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The warmest part of the engine is the high-pressure turbine.
    Rob Verger, Popular Science, 14 Oct. 2020
  • In Europe, turbine blades have been used to build bridges.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Press a button on the DBS's dash, and its starter motor spins the V-12 with a turbine-like whirr.
    John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 27 May 2020
  • On the other hand, some parts (like turbine wheels) are changed at times.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 21 Aug. 2020
  • The blades of a sprawling turbine farm turn slowly in the distance.
    Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Water is piped through hot rock and returned to the surface in the form of steam that drives a turbine.
    Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Apr. 2022
  • In the meantime, the turbines continue to turn slowly in the breeze.
    Carrie Arnold, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2019
  • Dispatch says fire engulfed the turbine 300 feet above the ground.
    Mike Carter, The Seattle Times, 22 July 2019
  • The Nordex Acciona plant is the second wind turbine blade plant to open in Matamoros over the past year.
    Sergio Chapa, Houston Chronicle, 17 June 2019
  • Wind isn’t new; thousands of turbines have dotted the hills for decades.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The turbine generates about a third of the power used by the system.
    Staff Report, NOLA.com, 26 Oct. 2020
  • But on these two turbines, this is not part of the grant funding that's available right now.
    The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Trump abuses his power in ways that must have the founders whirring like turbines in their graves.
    Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Throughout the area, wind farm turbines spun rapidly in the wind and blinding rain.
    CBS News, 7 May 2024
  • Opponents said the turbines pose health risks and are noisy.
    USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • When Sage releases that water, the pressure from underground shoots it upward, and the heat creates vapors that spin turbines and crank out electricity.
    Alexander C. Kaufman, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2025
  • China also makes more large cast and forged products—including landing gear, engine components, brakes, turbine disks, and fan blades—than the next nine countries combined.
    Michael Brown, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025

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