Example Sentences

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Turbines are crucial rotating components that play a key role in extracting energy to generate thrust.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2025

Turbines are now built to withstand events like tornadoes, hurricanes and typhoons because of advances in technology since the early designs of the 1990s.

From New York Times • May 22, 2024

Turbines began spinning off Rhode Island’s Block Island in 2016.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2024

Umpleby joined Solar Turbines, a Caterpillar subsidiary, in 1980, and has been with the company for 40 years.

From Reuters • Oct. 13, 2022

Steam Boilers, Engines and Turbines 8vo, 3 00 —— Refrigeration, Heating and Ventilation on Shipboard 12mo, *2 00 —— Electricity in Mining 8vo, *3 50 Wallis-Tayler, A. J.

From Seasoning of Wood by Wagner, J. B. (Joseph Bernard)