How to Use transformer in a Sentence

transformer

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  • There was a fire in the plant’s main transformer that was put out by the plant’s fire department.
    — Dallas News, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Avoid the Area of Riverside Drive a tree fell into a transformer.
    — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The blast sent a plume of black smoke and flames 30 feet into the air, high enough to reach a transformer on a power line.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • At one point, a transformer caught in the wind sent a shower of sparks onto a main town road.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2022
  • The transformer, to a large degree, solved this problem.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Keep in Mind The transformer is not included with the low voltage set.
    — Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 June 2023
  • Police were called at 9:11 p.m. June 9 about a sparking wire and flames near a transformer.
    — cleveland, 11 June 2020
  • The transformer caught fire at the dam about 10 a.m., the Bureau of Reclamation said on Twitter.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022
  • The transformer is not included with the low voltage set.
    — Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2022
  • To hit the transformer from hundreds of miles away, the Russians had to know exactly where to strike to do the most damage.
    — Marc Santora, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The tree caused a transformer fire, ripping wires from the home and causing roof and other structural damage to the house.
    — Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 2 June 2022
  • Mehr said the project was delayed for a few weeks by the need to move a transformer that was pushed back by the August tropical storm.
    — Steven Goode, courant.com, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Police said the top of the transformer had apparently caught fire and the breaker had popped.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 5 June 2021
  • Seconds later, the video shows a transformer explode in a shower of sparks.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2021
  • So painting a large transformer with this paint is like putting a Faraday Cage over it, but cheaper.
    — James Conca, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The transformer, says O'Reilly, blends those two together.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Producing and installing a new transformer can take from six to nine months, for instance.
    — Alistair MacDonald, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The Kia went off the road and into a parking lot, hitting several metal poles and a transformer box.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 12 July 2022
  • My brother-in-law and I were caught in the traffic jam caused by the slow-moving giant transformer headed north on Pearl Road last week.
    — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 8 Nov. 2019
  • The biggest and best of these are all based on an architecture invented in 2017 called the transformer.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Apr. 2022
  • That was the final verdict on why a transformer in one of the arena’s three power stations failed right before Game 1.
    — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 16 May 2022
  • On the Arizona and Nevada border, part of the Hoover Dam briefly caught fire in the heat after a transformer exploded in 109 degree heat.
    — Tori B. Powell, CBS News, 20 July 2022
  • So the architects installed tiny track lighting along the beams, hiding the voltage transformers in the few closets the house did have.
    — New York Times, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The Dallas store had already suffered other issues, like when the restaurant safe was stolen or when the transformer blew, Heim says.
    — Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2022
  • There was one fire that day: A transformer explosion in nearby Oakley downed two power lines and set a fence ablaze.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 June 2021
  • New transformers cost about $2 million and weigh hundreds of tons, and Russia destroyed dozens of them.
    — Marc Santora, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Last December, a tree fell on a transformer and blew out most of the mountain’s electricity.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2022
  • About a month later, a transformer exploded in a manhole, this time on Beacon Hill.
    — Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The part in question is known as a LAN transformer and is part of a system that allows a vehicle’s electronic components to communicate with one another.
    — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 20 May 2024
  • Instead, Adept planned to use transformers to create an AI assistant for business, one that could automate any workflow and use any business software to perform tasks.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 18 June 2024

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