electricity
Example Sentences
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Koh said his overseas posting afforded him luxuries nearly impossible to find at home: steady electricity, nutritious meals and internet access.
Her home sits atop a sea of oil, but Camacho says there has been no electricity for six years, since a transformer blew out.
From Los Angeles Times
Replanting and repairing the damage without gasoline for tractors or electricity for irrigation is nearly impossible.
From Salon
The instrument also paved the way to an aesthetics of electricity—feedback, distortion, fuzz, sheer volume—that led to such genres as heavy metal, punk, grunge and shoegaze.
Supercomputers used across the nuclear weapons complex consume vast amounts of electricity to simulate the physics of nuclear systems and other high stakes scenarios.
From Science Daily
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