ELECTRIC in a Sentence

Learn ELECTRIC from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
145 example sentences for ELECTRIC, such as:
1. The news had an electric effect.
2. Her electric activity veiled her.
3. There is an electric socket in the wall.
4. He cools himself in front of an electric fan.
5. They utilized water for producing electric power.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ELECTRIC
electric
 n.  a car that is powered by electricity
 a.  affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling
Classic Sentence: (72 in 5 pages)
1  Already the air was electric between him and the twins and rude words had passed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  In an instant, the somnolence had fled from the lounging throng and something electric went snapping through the air.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  But there was something stimulating about him, something warm and vital and electric.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  Something vital, electric, leaped from him to her at the touch of his warm mouth, something that caressed her whole body thrillingly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  Mammy had hunted for it, just before the funeral when the pallbearers wanted a drink, and already the air in the kitchen was electric with suspicion between Mammy, Cookie and Peter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
6  She dropped to the seat without answering, but the electric lamp at the bend of the path shed a gleam on the struggling misery of her face.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
7  She was still half a mile from her destination, and she decided to walk across to Madison Avenue and take the electric car.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
8  That melancholy pleasure-ground was almost deserted when she entered it, and she sank down on an empty bench in the glare of an electric street-lamp.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
9  It was as though a great blaze of electric light had been turned on in her head, and her poor little anguished self shrank and cowered in it, without knowing where to take refuge.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
10  She saw the palms as a jungle, the pink-shaded electric globes as an opaline haze, and the eye-glassed faculty as Olympians.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
11  Inside the store, a greasy marble soda-fountain with an electric lamp of red and green and curdled-yellow mosaic shade.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  Her electric activity veiled her.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
13  That night she ate prodigiously of steak and fried potatoes; she produced electric sparks by touching his ear with her finger-tip; she slept twelve hours; and awoke to think how glorious was this brave land.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  In the gray light from the small electric bulb down the hall she could see that he was frowning.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
15  Late at night, a step on the wooden porch, heard through her confusion of sleep; the storm-door opened; fumbling over the inner door-panels; the buzz of the electric bell.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
1  If you touch an electric wire, you ll get a shock.
2  All our electric shavers are supplied with a free travel pouch.
3  The sun, a lamp, or an electric heater all warm us by radiation.
4  A more powerful version of this electric bus is currently in development.
5  There is an electric socket in the wall.
6  They utilized water for producing electric power.
7  You should never join an electric wire to a water pipe.
8  With electric cars there is a big environmental payoff.
9  A household radiator absorbs energy in the form of electric current and releases it in the form of heat.
10  They tried to recuperated waste heat to produce electric current.
11  The news had an electric effect.
12  He cools himself in front of an electric fan.
13  An electric fan heater maintains a temperature just above freezing point.
14  The electric windows are an important design feature of this model.
15  Never poke a finger or scissors into an electric socket.