How to Use wind turbine in a Sentence

wind turbine

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• The average lifespan of a wind turbine can be up to 20 years.
  — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 23 June 2023
• The wind turbine judders to life with a boom that echoes down its central shaft.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, The Atlantic, 20 May 2022
• Watch as builders dig, frame, and fill the foundation for a 250-foot wind turbine.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2020
• And to a whirling, beautiful shot of a wind turbine that’s capped off by a dead bird falling from the sky.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2022
• The solar panels and wind turbine on Eleventh Street came down.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2021
• The largest wind turbine tower Jackson works on is about 344 feet high.
  — Morgan Smith,mickey Todiwala, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2024
• Last year, the wind turbine price in China dropped almost 40%.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 30 June 2021
• The engineers have dropped the price of a solar panel or a wind turbine 90 percent in the last decade.
  — CBS News, 12 Aug. 2020
• All this for a movie starring Tom Hardy as a steroidal big toe who sounds like a James Mason wind turbine.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2022
• Hundreds of thousands of birds are killed each year by wind turbines across the United States.
  — Jim Talamonti | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 27 July 2024
• The procedure then takes about 90 minutes to de-ice a wind turbine.
  — Devon Link, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2021
• In addition to the solar panels, the Clearys also have two low-speed wind turbines on the roof.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 31 Oct. 2024
• California will be the first region in the U.S. to use floating wind turbines.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
• Here, Amano can direct winds of up to 60 miles per hour at small wind turbine prototypes.
  — Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2021
• An entrance to the project near the school was nixed and a windmill was reduced in height from 76 feet to 36 feet with a prohibition on a wind turbine.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
• This technology has come a long way since Charles Brush built the first wind turbine in the backyard of his Ohio mansion in 1888.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2023
• Trump was ordered to pay the Scottish government's legal bills for the wind turbine fight in 2019.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022
• But the shallow waters east of London are already packed with wind turbines.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2023
• Since then, numerous wind turbine projects have been green-lit offshore and across the country.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2023
• The world’s first recyclable wind turbine blades are spinning at a German wind farm.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2022
• The helicopter carries a barrel and sprays fluid on the wind turbine.
  — Devon Link, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2021
• An offshore wind turbine operates in the Taiwan Strait off the coast of Taiwan.
  — Isabel Hilton, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2024
• Winds were expected to remain gusty Winds in the area were fierce overnight —but not unusual for the area that’s dotted with wind turbines just to the north.
  — Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 2 June 2024
• As waves grew and gusts increased, a wind turbine bobbed gently, its blades spinning with a gentle woosh.
  — David Sharp and Jennifer McDermott, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2024
• There’s no question that electric lines kill birds — as do wind turbines and solar farms.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• That will mean great variability in the levels of power supplied by the wind turbines.
  — Matthias Mueller, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2023
• The pilot of the nearly 80-foot work boat gunned its powerful engines, pinning the bow against the base of a towering wind turbine in the smooth North Sea.
  — Stanley Reed Francesca Jones, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2022
• Bolton Valley, in Vermont, features a 121-foot-tall wind turbine.
  — Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2024
• Once guests cross the bridge and enter the new area, in clear view will be the district’s power source, a floating wind turbine that sits atop old fishing net tannery.
  — Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2023
• The revenue from toll bridges, ferries, churches, rental homes, wind turbines, mines and a host of other avenues also flows into their coffers.
  — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024