How to Use potential energy in a Sentence

potential energy

noun

• More weight means more potential energy to push the car down the slope.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023
• Gasoline, for its many flaws, contains an enormous amount of potential energy in a very small amount of mass.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 20 May 2021
• The vast potential energy of the ocean and the prospect of diminishing up-front costs appeals to investors with longer-term timelines.
  — Phil Rosen, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2021
• This energy is transferred to you in the form of potential energy.
  — Randall Munroe, Time, 12 Sep. 2019
• As October drew to a close, the White House saw another potential energy flash point on the horizon.
  — Kevin Crowley, Jennifer A. Dlouhy and Ari Natter, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2022
• Well, there are a tremendous number of people who need help, and there's a tremendous amount of potential energy in the idea of this group of people getting back together.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 1 May 2020
• Takeoff: The potential energy in the bent pole is transferred back to the athlete’s body as kinetic energy.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2021
• The higher their vibe, meaning the more they are naturally aligned with and energized by the role they have been assigned, the more potential energy is released.
  — Tabitha Scott, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• Both possess the same mass and potential energy, but basic intuition suggests that large numbers of foam balls will not cause the same damage to you as one piano.
  — Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2021
• That energy change is the change in electric potential energy.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 23 Jan. 2021
• From ions to waves, there's a lot of potential energy in the water that covers 70 percent of the planet, and these hydrophobic surfaces could help tap into that energy.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2018
• The European Union has also been embracing a potential energy shortage as Russia threatens to cut off oil and gas supplies to the West.
  — Brian Bushard, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• There’s so much potential energy lying dormant there, and last night’s awards ceremony teaches us that the voice always speaks more clearly than the body.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 8 Jan. 2018
• One of the nation’s top oil and gas producing states, California, is delaying the closure of gas plants to cope with a potential energy crunch this summer.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 1 July 2022
• Warm water Hurricanes feed off of warm water at the surface of the ocean—the greater the temperature difference between the surface and the mid-levels of the atmosphere, the more potential energy a storm has.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 Sep. 2017
• There will be two types of energy here—the gravitational potential energy (U) that depends on the height and the kinetic energy (K) that depends on the speed.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 13 Aug. 2021
• China and India have become major customers, and the crop now is being eyed as a potential energy source for power plants, ships and airplanes, which would create even more demand.
  — Margie Mason and Robin McDowell, chicagotribune.com, 21 Nov. 2020
• The measure of this is called CAPE (convective available potential energy).
  — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 10 May 2018
• Two of the nation’s largest grid operators issued alerts about potential energy shortages for that reason this week.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 28 July 2023
• As the coin moves down the bowl, the gravitational potential energy will decrease, resulting in an increase in kinetic energy (which depends on the speed of the coin).
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 21 Oct. 2020
• The Energy Vault is based on the science that most of us learned in Middle School – potential energy versus kinetic energy.
  — James Conca, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• Inflation is a simple idea: imagine that the universe begins in a tiny patch of space dominated by the potential energy of some scalar field, a kind of super-dense dark energy.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2011
• What instead pulsates with life is the sandbox itself: the potential energy of this playground, with its unexplored easter eggs yet to be discovered.
  — Sonia Saraiya, HWD, 20 Apr. 2018
• This is because the energy barrier abruptly goes from low potential energy at the base of the well to very high potential energy either side.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Jan. 2024
• The measure of this fuel, known as convective available potential energy (CAPE), could exceed 2,000, a large number for our region.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 9 May 2018
• There might be kinetic energy if the whole system is moving, and there might be potential energy too (the energy stored in a system as a result of its position).
  — Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023
• By spinning the electric motor backward, the car will be able to turn the kinetic energy of braking into potential energy that’s stored in something like a flywheel or a small battery.
  — Sean O'Kane, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2019
• Storing potential energy – within chemical or nuclear bonds or by virtue of gravity and location in the case of dams – is the old-fashioned way of doing things.
  — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
• And at least one species of mantis shrimp can also increase elastic potential energy storage in proportion to increases in body mass.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2023
• Yet, a wristwatch is full of potential energy thanks to the constant motion of the wearer, no matter how subtle—even a simple hand gesture during conversation.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024