ELECTRICITY in a Sentence

Learn ELECTRICITY 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 ELECTRICITY, such as:
1. This kind of machine works by electricity.
2. This type of heater uses a lot of electricity.
3. Electricity produces heat, heat produces electricity.
4. Wind turbines generate electricity for the local community.
5. There was a great steam power plant and an electricity plant.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ELECTRICITY
electricity
 n.  energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor
 n.  a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons
Classic Sentence: (72 in 5 pages)
1  It flies nineteen million times faster than the best race-horse; and yet electricity is quicker still.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
2  Death is an electric shock which our heart receives; the freed soul soars upwards on the wings of electricity.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
3  The magnetic energy, as developed in the mariner's needle, is, as all know, essentially one with the electricity beheld in heaven; hence it is not to be much marvelled at, that such things should be.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 124. The Needle.
4  There was a great steam power plant and an electricity plant.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
5  Electricity produces heat, heat produces electricity.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VII
6  The forces of gravitation, electricity, or chemical affinity are only distinguished from one another in that they are differently defined by reason.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER X
7  Before this I was not unacquainted with the more obvious laws of electricity.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
8  At first he thought the solution lay in electricity: convert the coal into electric power.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
9  Of an electricity disengaged, little by little, of a flame suddenly darting forth, of a wandering force, of a passing breath.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION
10  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
11  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
12  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
13  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
14  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
15  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
Example Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
1  Many people are living in encampments around the city with no electricity or running water.
2  That was in the days before electricity was available at the flick of a switch.
3  Words like "bag","dog","nurse","electricity", and "wood"are all nouns.
4  The town is without electricity and the water supply has been cut off.
5  This type of heater uses a lot of electricity.
6  This standard ensures the unit is waterproof and so prevents an accidental, and potentially fatal, combination of water and electricity.
7  She wanted to change over from gas to electricity for her cooking.
8  Wind turbines generate electricity for the local community.
9  The electricity company will send an employee to read your meter.
10  If you suspect a gas leak do not strike a match or use electricity.
11  Steam and water power are used for the generation of electricity.
12  A detonator is any device containing an explosive that is actuated by heat, percussion, friction, or electricity.
13  The electricity industry consumes large amounts of fossil fuels.
14  We run the washing machine at night because off-peak electricity is much cheaper.
15  This kind of machine works by electricity.