How to Use volt in a Sentence

volt

noun

• And who else would do it with a forty-two-hundred-volt tennis racquet?
  — Meghana Indurti, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• The motor starts with a single pulse from a 9-volt battery.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 15 Feb. 2026
• This gives it a quieter look than the volt and ultra orange options.
  — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
• And each of them has a million volts of electricity going through it.
  — Simon Crerar, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
• Some sharks can detect weak currents as low as five billionths of a volt per square centimeter.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
• But a few volts will be left on the table -- more specifically, the nosebleeds.
  — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 7 Sep. 2023
• While a 12-volt battery works okay, 36 V does much better.
  — David Schneider, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2025
• The vacuum’s 20 volts of power snatch up dust, dirt, crumbs, and more from hard floors and carpets.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024
• This specification refers to how fast a motor spins per volt applied.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 14 Jan. 2026
• Just magnets, copper wire, a transistor, and a 9-volt battery.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 15 Feb. 2026
• This outdoor bug zapper is equipped with a high-voltage 4200-volt electric grid with long range.
  — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 July 2026
• Most of our homeowners have an 240-volt outlet in their garage to charge their EVs.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, Oc Register, 5 Dec. 2025
• To calculate watt hours, multiply the volts (V) by the ampere hours (Ah).
  — Jill Schildhouse, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2023
• Most dryers run on 240 volts, which is a lot of energy just sitting there in a plastic control board.
  — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026
• The setup runs on 24 volts and feeds a 3 kVA converter that powers the house.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Nov. 2025
• Other highlights worth mention are its digital volt meter, low oil sensor, and push-button start.
  — Popular Mechanics, 17 Nov. 2022
• The Looft has a 36-volt lithium battery pack that’s good for 10 ignitions per charge.
  — Graham Averill, Outside, 11 Oct. 2025
• The theory of the single electron-volt sterile neutrino is wrong.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
• The 48-volt mild-hybrid system makes the powertrain feel seamless in a way that pure combustion no longer can.
  — Sean Evans, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2026
• The shock of more than 7,000 volts of electricity shooting through his body blew off his thumb and burned him from the inside out.
  — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
• When the electric field reaches a critical strength — roughly 3 million volts per meter — the air starts to come undone.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026
• All that power is combined with a 69-kWh battery that manages 800 volts.
  — New Atlas, 28 Nov. 2025
• As a result, the new organic solar cells could handle a breakdown voltage of more than minus 35 volts.
  — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 21 July 2026
• One trial recorded an output of almost 29 volts – an impressive figure for a device small enough to rest in a palm.
  — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
• But this happens by a switch getting thrown, which sends volts of electricity coursing through Suzanne and the volunteer.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 May 2026
• Units typically have one 9-volt battery or use two or three AA batteries.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2025
• The very first strikes fry electronics and power grids by creating an electro-magnetic pulse of tens of thousands of volts per meter.
  — Max Tegmark, Time, 29 June 2023
• The device is operated by a replaceable 9 volt battery that works even when there’s a power outage.
  — Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2023
• The product is called the EZgo and can plug in to a 120- or 240-volt outlet.
  — John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs and Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 16 May 2026
• Technicians believed the problem with the oxygen tank could be fixed using 65-volt power at the launchpad.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 8 Aug. 2025