How to Use power station in a Sentence

power station

noun
Definition of power stationnext
  • Daphne had felt for years that the power station made no sense.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The two had a fight to the death at a power station, where both died in an apocalyptic blast.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 Aug. 2022
  • His late father used to work swing shifts at a power station.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The Ukrainians also charged that the Kremlin’s forces fired on a town across the Dnieper River from the power station.
    — Hanna Arhirova, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Airstrikes also hit a power station and grain silos, the group said.
    — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Ratepayers of the local utility are footing the bill for the power station on the site.
    — Joe Barrett, WSJ, 25 May 2022
  • The Eggborough power station is just one of 14 coal plants the United Kingdom has laid to rest over the past decade.
    — Daniel Wolfe, CNN, 3 Nov. 2021
  • When a local lawmaker led a hunger strike to protest the power station, he was jailed for six months.
    — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Several of the Grad volleys were aimed at the power station, leading to blackouts in the area.
    — The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Think of it as a green campsite power station for entrepreneurs who can’t stay off their screens—even when in the great outdoors.
    — Nicolas Stecher, Robb Report, 26 Nov. 2021
  • After all, a single pulse isn’t a power station – the process has to be repeated again and again.
    — Don Lincoln, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Each power station will be around the size of two soccer pitches, and will be able to power a million homes.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2021
  • For the first time, Muscat’s new power station was required to power the whole country.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Was the North Carolina power station attack linked to a drag show?
    — USA Today, 5 Dec. 2022
  • During the attack, the ship was posted close to the power station for the naval base, and fired upon enemy planes to protect it.
    — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 7 Dec. 2020
  • The couple have set up a little power station on their porch so neighbors can charge their phones and other items.
    — Ivan Penn, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2021
  • In some regions, people may prefer less of those—and more of the compact central power stations that TVA knows how to build.
    — Robert Kunzig, The Atlantic, 25 July 2023
  • Then a parking lot next to the power station was flooded, and soon water started pouring through a gap in the concrete.
    — Jan M. Olsen, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Satellite imagery from after the attack shows gaping holes in the roofs of both towers, a crater in the concrete of the dam next to the head-gates, and a fire in one of the power station buildings.
    — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • When the Kyiv police officers fired their guns into the sky on Oct. 17, one drone was shot down, but four others struck near a power station.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Cranking power stations up and down in a 24-hour cycle is very bad for the environment.
    — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Cables can be buried all the way to the power station, but this can be more difficult if the cable lands ashore in a residential area.
    — Sarah McFarlane, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2021
  • Get charged up on more deals on portable power stations.
    — Gabriela Vatu, PCMAG, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Soon, there were more drone sightings over oil and gas installations, and a power station.
    — Henrik Pryser Libell, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The power station itself is due to be decommissioned in 2064, by which time much of the host city of Pripyat will also have crumbled away, the guides say.
    — Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The attack led to power outages in some parts of Kyiv after power stations were damaged.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Who blew up power lines from the Kursk nuclear power station?
    — Arkansas Online, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the value of power station coal shipments will drop 71% in the period.
    — James Fernyhough, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Cost has usually been the main barrier to building a space solar power station so far, Caplin said.
    — Kat Friedrich, Ars Technica, 15 July 2024
  • Free open-source programs, such as the Linux operating system, help run everything from websites to power stations.
    — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 27 July 2024

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