How to Use high-voltage in a Sentence

high-voltage

adjective
Definition of high-voltagenext
Synonyms for high-voltagenext
  • Her run is the high-voltage gallop of purpose and thrill.
    — Julia Daye, Kansas City Star, 15 Feb. 2024
  • That means a 160-foot-tall, high-voltage pylon would stand in a farmer’s field about an eighth of a mile from her house.
    — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Pops of high-voltage pinks and blues send a shock wave through the relatively muted palette.
    — House Beautiful, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Bill Hatch owns a winery that sits near the path of where PJM suggested one high-voltage line could go, though that route is still under review.
    — Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2024
  • She’s known for her high-voltage blend of Latin, electronic, afro and pop sounds as well as her powerful vocals.
    — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Back in 2021, James lost his nose, lips, chin, front teeth and left eye after an accident while working as a high-voltage lineman.
    — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The driver said the temperature was neither too hot nor too cold and a high-voltage battery warning lit up.
    — Detroit Free Press, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Above them, shrouded in smoke, was a high-voltage transmission tower.
    — John Riha, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
  • At the same time, Germany will need to speed the construction of high-voltage grids linking wind farms off the coasts in the north to power-hungry factories and cities further south.
    — William Wilkes, Bloomberg.com, 25 May 2023
  • The company revealed that the high-voltage battery may overheat.
    — USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
  • PHEVs have all these plus electric motors, a high-voltage traction battery, and charging to contend with.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 Nov. 2023
  • To make the plan work, the nation would need thousands of miles of new high-voltage transmission lines — large power lines that would span multiple grid regions.
    — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 12 June 2023
  • Two were electrocuted to death while hiding in a high-voltage transformer.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
  • Deliveries of the Taycan EV declined in the past two quarters due to a shortage of special parts including a high-voltage heater.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
  • This suggests that a circuit breaker designed to protect the Rivian's high-voltage battery pack tripped.
    — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 5 Mar. 2023
  • But Mercedes representatives confirmed that there's no easy way to tap into the van's high-voltage system.
    — Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Drones, equipped with AI and thermal imaging cameras, are used to inspect high-voltage lines and hard-to-reach electrical infrastructures.
    — Neil Sahota, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The blue-violet light lures flying insects in, while the high-voltage electric grid kills them instantly upon contact.
    — Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 2 May 2024
  • Nationwide, just 251 miles of high-voltage transmission lines were completed last year, a number that has been declining for a decade.
    — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Mahalik punched a few keys below the computer display screen on the high-voltage cabinet behind us.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 29 Apr. 2023
  • But because the coal plant sends power to Southern California, there is a long-distance, high-voltage transmission line already in place.
    — Henry Fountain Nina Riggio, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Some of its high-voltage substations – key nodes that reduce the voltage of electricity so it can be transferred through power lines to homes and offices – have been restored more than 10 times, Kharchenko said.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN, 14 Apr. 2024
  • The high-voltage boards and components were assembled breadboard style onto acrylic panels, held up by poster-tack adhesive.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2023
  • In recent decades, the country has hardly built any major high-voltage power lines that connect different grid regions.
    — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 12 June 2023
  • To some, the whole notion of wireless power transmission evokes images of Nikola Tesla with high-voltage coils spewing miniature bolts of lightning.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 May 2022
  • Instead of using a traditional snap-back method to eliminate rats, this trap uses high-voltage shocks to instantly kill the rodents.
    — Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Inspection of high-voltage power lines is costly, difficult, and a dangerous job even for skilled workers.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
  • So these are high-voltage electrodes converting water to hydrogen and oxygen.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2023
  • But to tap those resources, which are often far from population centers, developers will need to build thousands of miles of new high-voltage transmission lines.
    — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • So as well as the risk of injury to passengers and bystanders from the actual collision forces, there is the potential of short-circuiting and explosive overheating of the high-voltage battery unit.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023

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