How to Use wind turbine in a Sentence

wind turbine

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• The average lifespan of a wind turbine can be up to 20 years.
  — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 23 June 2023
• And to a whirling, beautiful shot of a wind turbine that’s capped off by a dead bird falling from the sky.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2022
• California will be the first region in the U.S. to use floating wind turbines.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
• An entrance to the project near the school was nixed and a windmill was reduced in height from 76 feet to 36 feet with a prohibition on a wind turbine.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
• This technology has come a long way since Charles Brush built the first wind turbine in the backyard of his Ohio mansion in 1888.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2023
• But the shallow waters east of London are already packed with wind turbines.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2023
• Since then, numerous wind turbine projects have been green-lit offshore and across the country.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2023
• The world’s first recyclable wind turbine blades are spinning at a German wind farm.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2022
• There’s no question that electric lines kill birds — as do wind turbines and solar farms.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• That will mean great variability in the levels of power supplied by the wind turbines.
  — Matthias Mueller, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2023
• The pilot of the nearly 80-foot work boat gunned its powerful engines, pinning the bow against the base of a towering wind turbine in the smooth North Sea.
  — Stanley Reed Francesca Jones, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2022
• Bolton Valley, in Vermont, features a 121-foot-tall wind turbine.
  — Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2024
• Once guests cross the bridge and enter the new area, in clear view will be the district’s power source, a floating wind turbine that sits atop old fishing net tannery.
  — Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2023
• But the floating wind turbines that are needed for deep waters face salty wind gusts and large waves, not to mention the immense challenge of installing them in the first place.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 May 2023
• The blades of a wind turbine are typically designed to be replaced about every 20 years.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 26 Aug. 2022
• But as wind turbines began to dot the landscape, and the local tax base increased, the district of about 280 students was able to issue a bond to pay for a new school building.
  — Anna Phillips, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2023
• The wind turbine at the tip of the Hull peninsula hasn’t been working since April 2021, and officials are deciding whether to repair it or take it down.
  — Johanna Seltz, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2022
• There is no evidence that wind turbines are connected to whale deaths.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024
• Even so, a wind turbine and its tower can sometimes be too cumbersome.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Jan. 2024
• The demand for wind turbine technicians is largely responsible for the large growth Hoosiers could see in the green job sector.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Aug. 2022
• Then solar farms in the desert probably sound better than offshore wind turbines.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• Cleveland, Ohio Fifty feet in diameter with 144 rotor blades made of cedar, the U.S.’s first wind turbine was truly a sight to behold.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2023
• Birds—from eagles to wrens—share a deadly habit of blithely flying into wind turbine blades that, at their outer edges, can reach speeds of up to 170 miles per hour.
  — Byian Mount, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2022
• The metal is used in solar panels, wind turbines, electrical cables, and even your iPhone.
  — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2023
• Putting a wind turbine at an airport seemed a no-brainer to Souryal, but the idea is easier than its execution.
  — Kyle Arnold, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
• As a result, 49 percent of potential Iowa wind turbine sites are no longer available.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Jan. 2023
• There are half a dozen different designs in circulation for how best to float wind turbines.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
• For more than 15 years, researchers at the University of Maine have been honing scale models of floating wind turbines inspired by oil rigs.
  — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• The foundation for an offshore wind turbine sits on rollers at the marine terminal in Paulsboro, N.J., July 6.
  — WSJ, 13 July 2023
• Transmission lines have drawn a crowd of clean energy developers, and the first wind turbines have already gone up.
  — Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024