How to Use substation in a Sentence

substation

noun

• For Kathryn Henkel, the substation outage was a nerve-racking blow.
  — oregonlive, 30 Dec. 2022
• For Kathryn Henkel, the substation outage was a nerve-wracking blow.
  — Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Dec. 2022
• The 85-foot (26-meter) vessel was dwarfed by the substation, which is almost the size of a football field.
  — Will Wade, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
• That’s the substations and wires and poles that bring the power literally to your door.
  — Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2024
• Local news footage showed a large plume of black smoke and flames erupting from the substation as crews assembled in the rain.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
• The first strikes at the substation damaged a number of transformers.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• The key was a substation facility near the town of Moapa.
  — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
• The city also agreed to move the Providence Police substation on Cushing Street, paid for by the city.
  — Steph MacHado, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
• The 67-year-old suspect was found by a deputy sitting in his car in the parking lot of a nearby sheriff's substation.
  — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2023
• The 66-year-old suspect was found by a deputy sitting in his car in the parking lot of a nearby sheriff's substation.
  — Steve Helling, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2023
• At the offshore site, crews assembled a substation over the summer.
  — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• At the Kapowsin substation, their actions cause arcing and sparking, the complaint said.
  — Gene Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Jan. 2023
• The estimated cost of the substation damage is in the millions, the sheriff said Sunday.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 5 Dec. 2022
• According to the complaint, the pair hit the first three substations early on Christmas Day, then struck the last — the Kapowsin substation — that evening.
  — CBS News, 3 Jan. 2023
• At the police substation that night, the parents were taken into a room where their son was being held.
  — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2024
• At the police substation that night, the parents were taken into a room where their son was being held.
  — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2024
• There’s a substation there, but part of that property is unused.
  — Page Leggett, Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2024
• The terminal will host a substation for Empire Wind 1 and serve as a home base for maintenance work.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 28 Mar. 2024
• The new substation project would need to be completed by the end of 2025 to avoid issues, Lucore said in January.
  — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 26 Mar. 2024
• According to the complaint, the pair hit the first three substations early Saturday, then struck the last -- the Kapowsin substation -- that evening.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 Jan. 2023
• In June last year, a large fire at a substation in the capital of San Juan left hundreds of thousands without power.
  — DÁnica Coto, ajc, 7 Apr. 2022
• When an electrical surge and explosion at a Con Ed substation in Queens lit up the sky in December of 2018, many were sure the blue haze was a sign of alien life.
  — Alexis Oatman, cleveland, 13 Jan. 2023
• The two boys entered a power substation to hide from police in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, and were electrocuted.
  — Time, 29 June 2023
• No arrests have been made in connection with the substation shootings.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2023
• An Xcel Energy substation and a park storage building have been swept away by the waters.
  — Adrienne Broaddus, NBC News, 26 June 2024
• Olena Pavlenko, the head of the think tank, said Ukraine needed spare equipment like transformers to rebuild substations.
  — Oleksandra Mykolyshyn, New York Times, 5 June 2024
• Their plan was to attack the substations with rifles, and each was assigned a substation in a different region of the U.S.
  — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 24 Feb. 2022
• Martinez said the goal is for every Dallas police substation to have at least one unmarked or ghost car.
  — Dallas News, 12 Oct. 2022
• In March, Russian strikes destroyed its two main power plants and network of substations.
  — Laurel Chor, NPR, 21 June 2024
• The utility built flood walls around several substations and relocated others beyond the reach of once-in-a-century floods.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024