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. He was there to read the electricity meter.
2. The electricity supply here is quite erratic.
3. Dams were built for the generation of electricity.
4. If you touch an electric wire, you ll get a shock.
5. Electricity produces heat, heat produces electricity.

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 Meanings and Examples of ELECTRICITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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)
16  The plant provides forty per cent of the country's electricity.
17  The hydroelectric plant provides electricity for half the island's population.
18  The electricity supply here is quite erratic.
19  He was there to read the electricity meter.
20  Wind and solar are intermittent power sources - only producing electricity under certain optimum environmental conditions.
21  The thought that electricity might be leaking out of the empty light bulb sockets might perturb my aunt.
22  The volume of unconventional gas isn't significant on a U. K. wide scale, supplying enough electricity for only 1,200 homes, but the potential is there, analysts say.
23  Inasmuch as our supply of electricity is cut off, we shall have to rely on the hens to incubate these eggs.
24  They live what they call plain lives, of course, as you well know, not using electricity.
25  One of the key reforms that Fox wants to institute is a major reform of the electricity sector.
26  Dams were built for the generation of electricity.
27  Renewable energy is growing fast around the world and will edge out natural gas as the second biggest source of electricity, after coal, by 2016.
28  Everyone knows that bees buzz around flowers in their quest for nectar; but scientists have now learned that flowers are buzzing right back - with electricity.
29  If you touch an electric wire, you ll get a shock.
30  All our electric shavers are supplied with a free travel pouch.