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
• Dispatch says fire engulfed the turbine 300 feet above the ground.
  — Mike Carter, The Seattle Times, 22 July 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
• Even so, ClearView thinks the change in turbine supplier for the project could mean adding at least six months to the project’s timeline.
  — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 2 Dec. 2020
• The turbine will then run off of the steam and produce electricity.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 8 Feb. 2023
• The firm recently planted a colossal, world-record-setting turbine in the Østerild test field in Denmark.
  — Joe Salas, New Atlas, 7 Apr. 2025
• Thune also often praises wind energy—a booming industry in his home state—even though Trump considers turbines loathsome eyesores.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025