How to Use outage in a Sentence

outage

noun

• Most of the outages occurred in the eastern and northern parts of the county.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
• And, if there is a power outage, the settings on the slow cooker will clear.
  — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2023
• The largest share of those outages — 23 percent — were in Everett, according to the map.
  — Beth Treffeisen, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• The outage began spiking around 2 p.m., the service shows.
  — The Enquirer, 5 Jan. 2024
• Hot weather has not caused rolling outages in Texas since 2006.
  — Paul J. Weber, ajc, 27 June 2023
• For many in the region, power outages were the biggest problem.
  — Meagan Campbell, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2023
• There have been a handful of threads on the Starlink subreddit Reddit about the outage.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 13 Sep. 2023
• People were saying the same thing when AT&T had a nationwide outage about a month ago.
  — Matt Novak / Gizmodo, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2024
• What to do if your power is out In the event of a power outage during a winter storm, don't panic.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024
• The company said the outage was fully resolved at 1:28PM ET.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 9 June 2023
• The utility hoped to restore the vast majority of outages by the end of Sunday.
  — Aurora Sousanis, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2023
• In the event of a power outage, the best foods and drinks to have in hand are nutritious and protein-rich and do not require preparation.
  — Heather Mercer, Verywell Health, 17 Jan. 2024
• Hatsune Miku will be equally special, at least as long as there isn’t a power outage.
  — Peter Larsen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
• Employees were told to go home after the fire caused a power outage, Zacholl said.
  — Melissa Montoya, Peoplemag, 1 July 2023
• Power outages and tree damage are likely in some areas due to the heavy and wet snow combined with icing and strong winds.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
• The 118-day strike was one of the longest labor outages in Hollywood history.
  — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2023
• In other parts of the state, Lee’s impact left thousands of customers dealing with power outages.
  — Beth Treffeisen, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• This is a fairly long-duration wind event, which may mean power outages.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• The attack led to power outages in some parts of Kyiv after power stations were damaged.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2023
• Power is supplied to the building via two substations, reducing the risk of an outage.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
• The account is back online after a multiday outage and now has more than 7 million.
  — Jason Abbruzzese, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
• Some parts of the city saw 30 inches of snow total, resulting in road closures, power outages and school closings.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2023
• When the power goes out, the battery takes over, giving you enough time to save your work and shut down, switch to an external battery pack, or keep working through short outages and brownouts.
  — David Nield, WIRED, 9 July 2023
• In 2021, there was a February freeze that led to rolling power outages for thousands of electrical customers in the Kansas City area as record cold seized the region.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2024
• The telecom outage announced by Paltel follows similar outages through much of the war.
  — Najib Jobain, Wafaa Shurafa, and Samy Magdy, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Dec. 2023
• Threads is debuting at a time when Twitter has drastically cut its staff, and is plagued by outages and burdened with bills.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 4 July 2023
• Meta did not immediately reply to a request for comment about the outage or when it might be resolved.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2024
• The rolling outages were short and contained, relatively speaking.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
• Northern Colorado saw several feet of snow late this week in a storm that sparked power outages and shut down major roadways to ski resorts.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2024
• A week ago, Change Healthcare announced plans for a temporary loan program to get money flowing to health care providers affected by the outage.
  — Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024