How to Use watt in a Sentence
watt
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The old type of hot air hand dryer was at least 3,000 watts and takes a long time.
— Lauren Goode, Wired, 10 Mar. 2020 -
The joule is the watt-second, in contrast to the watt-hour or kilowatt-hour.
— Brad Templeton, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022 -
The worst thing to do is rush out and replace equipment just to save a few watts.
— Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Jan. 1994 -
The panels provide as much as 700 watts on a clear day.
— Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 27 Nov. 2018 -
The man with the big guns and the million-watt smile has come a long way from his days as wrestling superstar The Rock.
— Lisa Respers France, CNN, 2 Apr. 2018 -
This new embrace of high-watt hues is hardly a male thing.
— Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2021 -
Note that a load of less than 30 watts won’t register on the display.
— Dallas News, 9 Apr. 2020 -
And the MagSafe puck inside it charges an iPhone almost as fast, at 14 watts, as the standalone version of the puck.
— Wes Davis, The Verge, 12 Sep. 2023 -
These take up space, so Razer had to trim the battery size from the 80 watt-hours of the top models, 65 watt hours in the base model.
— Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 10 Oct. 2018 -
For heavier use, look for a microwave with at least 1,000 watts of power.
— Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping, 31 Aug. 2023 -
If the energy is measured in joules and time in seconds, then the power would be in units of watts.
— Rhett Allain, WIRED, 4 May 2024 -
The total system required just over half a watt of power to stay aloft.
— John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 July 2024 -
To ring in her 22nd, Bella Hadid pushed things to the limit by piling on heaps of mega-watt gems.
— Madeline Fass, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2018 -
The garden’s 30 watt LED grow lights mimics sunlight and helps the plants grow quickly.
— Rachel Ahrnsen, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2024 -
That will reduce global prices 35 percent, to 24 cents a watt by yearend.
— Chris Martin, Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2018 -
Keep in Mind At a maximum of 2400 watts, this machine isn’t as high-powered as some of the others on the list.
— Laura Denby, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Nov. 2023 -
Back then, the cost of buying a one-watt solar panel was $77; today the cost has fallen to 30 cents.
— Nathanael Johnson, WIRED, 9 July 2018 -
At the same time, there's a new Green 500 list, which measures machines in terms of performance per watt.
— Michael J. Miller, PCMAG, 2 June 2022 -
Barnard stepped back and ordered electrodes placed on each side of the heart and the current (25 watt-seconds) applied.
— Lily Rothman, Time, 11 Dec. 2017 -
The global price has plunged to 14 cents a watt, down 37 percent since January.
— Jonathan Weisman Christian Monterrosa, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023 -
The large-capacity battery pack (240 watt-hours) does take a while to charge.
— Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2020 -
All month long, the HSO plants itself outdoors, enlists some hi-watt stars and beams sound waves into the night air.
— Michael Hamad, courant.com, 28 June 2018 -
Then, add gold to the center for a high-watt highlight and copper through the crease and along the lower lash line for depth and dimension.
— Amber Kallor, Marie Claire, 16 Nov. 2017 -
The testing will cover a 30- and 10-meter sprint, medicine ball toss, vertical jump and a watt bike test.
— Anthony Sorci, sacbee.com, 23 June 2017 -
That LED uses 8.5 watts to produce the same amount of light as a 60-watt incandescent.
— Severin Borenstein, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2017 -
To calculate watt hours, multiply the volts (V) by the ampere hours (Ah).
— Jill Schildhouse, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2023 -
Bueno, doñita, Mario hesitates, flashing her a mega-watt smile—too bad about the teeth.
— New York Times, 6 Apr. 2020 -
The fittest women could do 120 watts or more, which is what people put out at the start of a normal workout, Baker said.
— NBC News, 14 Mar. 2018 -
Most solar attic fans are between 20 watts and 40 watts.
— Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2024 -
Given a total mass of 4 grams, that works out to a lift-to-power efficiency of 7.6 grams per watt.
— John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 July 2024
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