How to Use power plant in a Sentence

power plant

noun

• The steam from the cooling towers of the power plant that the coal feeds rises on the horizon.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune Europe, 9 July 2024
• But at the back of her mind is always the fate of the nuclear-power plant.
  — Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2022
• The power plant is installed in a vast cavernous space.
  — Stanley Reed Matilde Viegas, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2023
• Beyond the fields was the power plant and then the steelworks followed by the shipyard, the flour mill and the gasworks.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
• Is Ohio’s air about to get cleaner with the closure of an old coal power plant?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2023
• Though the city revolved around two of the biggest power plants on the Volga, all its roads were dark.
  — Elettra Pauletto, Harper's Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
• That’s because the flood took out a power plant that was on the East Side of Manhattan.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2024
• For decades, Vistra leased the land to Texas at no cost and used the lake as a cooling reservoir for a power plant.
  — Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2023
• The electric car might still one day become a power plant on wheels.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Mar. 2023
• Since the power plant was finished in 1976, this place has sat empty.
  — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2022
• On the southwest edge of town, the power plant and mine punctuate the grasslands where deer and elk roam.
  — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
• Still that’s a lot of carbon going into the air—and a lot of cash the power plants are paying for allowances.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 13 July 2023
• The emissions would actually be closer to a fifth of those from the power plant.
  — oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2023
• The bill also includes $20 million for the purchase of the Shoshone power plant water rights.
  — Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 18 May 2024
• Most coal from the Kemmerer mine, in contrast, heads to the adjacent power plant.
  — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
• Coal power plants, for example, burn coal to boil water and pump steam through the turbine.
  — Harry Stevens, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
• The power plant burns fuel from trees that naturally take in and store CO2.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 13 June 2024
• Last February, the Chernobyl power plant fell under the control of the Russian army.
  — Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2023
• An American flag flutters over the small power plant, 200 miles upstream of Hells Canyon.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• The Blue Lagoon uses excess water from the power plant and was closed when the eruption began.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Feb. 2024
• Humans could choose to burn coal in a power plant to heat the water into steam and spin a generator.
  — Noah Gordon, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
• Moreover, a power plant based on NIF would need to raise the repetition rate from one shot per day to about 10 per second.
  — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 13 Dec. 2022
• When MotoGP went completely to a completely four-stroke power plant in 2003, there was a new and very flashy player in the game.
  — Peter Jackson, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2023
• As part of the settlement, SDG&E agreed to remove the old power plant and its 400-foot-tall smokestack, which many people saw as an eyesore.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2023
• Ukraine, however, is claiming that Russia started the fire at the power plant.
  — Tanya Stukalova, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2024
• So building more power plants means more profit for the company.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 26 Aug. 2023
• The steel tube containing Caesium-137 went missing from a power plant in the Prachin Buri province, where it was used for ash measurements.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 20 Mar. 2023
• The three concrete smokestacks, which were part of a Pacific Gas and Electric power plant built in the 1950s, have been replaced here by beer bottles.
  — Jerry Rice, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• Buying the right means the river district can ensure a certain amount of water flows down the Colorado River and past the power plant all year.
  — Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 17 Sep. 2024
• Last weekend saw Ukraine launch one of its largest drone attacks of the war, hitting power plants and an oil refinery just outside Moscow.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024