How to Use watt in a Sentence

watt

noun

• 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 panels provide as much as 700 watts on a clear day.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 27 Nov. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Many were bedecked in Boucheron’s high watt wares that dazzled in the light of over a thousand candles light for the occasion.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 21 Jan. 2019
• This means that, instead of the watts system, the quality of light emitted by these new bulbs is measured in Kelvins.
  — Jennifer Barger, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
• Instead of a few hundred watts of power, therefore, a small satellite might be able to have as much as five to eight times that amount to work with.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 July 2019
• Yes, power is a measure of the rate that energy changes—often measured in units of watts.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 17 Jan. 2020
• At a minimum, look for 250 watts to get you through light cake batters and liquids like whipping cream.
  — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 22 June 2023
• For the most energy-efficient lights, look for ones that have the highest lumens per watt.
  — Pamela Porter, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2024
• There’s a lot to love about this Lasko tower space heater, which has an impressive 1,500 watts of heating power.
  — Amanda Oliver, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024
• Most experts recommend somewhere between 32 and 40 watts per square foot for the best growth.
  — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2024
• The company says a special two-watt—two-watt—4K panel helps the laptop achieve up to a whopping 17 hours of endurance.
  — PCWorld, 11 Jan. 2020
• Compare that to Apple’s power adapters, which max out at 20 watts for a single port or 35 watts total.
  — Nick Guy, wsj.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• With incandescent bulbs, watts used to be the measure for brightness.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
• While brightness is measured by lumens, the amount of power that a light bulb consumes is measured by watts.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 July 2023
• It should be noted, however, that this kettle only gets up to 800 watts.
  — Michelle Love, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 July 2023
• This option has the second most powerful motor on our list, with 600 watts of power.
  — Jack Byram, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024