power line
a line for conducting electric power.
Origin of power line
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How to use power line in a sentence
For safety, you may want to plan to stay off roadways and charge devices in case a few trees fall near power lines.
D.C.-area forecast: Raw today. Iciness threat grows Saturday into early Sunday. | A. Camden Walker | February 12, 2021 | Washington PostHis mind works like a light switch to a power line, and it’s the biggest problem he poses for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Super Bowl highlights: Bucs celebrate championship, Tom Brady wins MVP | Des Bieler, Mark Maske, Chuck Culpepper | February 8, 2021 | Washington PostThe big snakes can even climb up utility poles and across power lines.
Newfound technique allows some tree snakes to climb wide trees | Maria Temming | February 1, 2021 | Science News For StudentsGases in the solar atmosphere and Earth’s own thin envelope interrupt the transmission of sunlight, the way power lines cause static in a radio signal.
My satellite would fit in a small suitcase. | Katie McLean | December 18, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewBirds fly into windows, communication towers, wind turbines, cars, trucks and power lines.
Around the world, birds are in crisis | Alison Pearce Stevens | December 3, 2020 | Science News For Students
He wrote an open letter—posted to the conservative blog power line—that quickly went viral.
Does Tom Cotton Still Want to Jail Journalists? | Asawin Suebsaeng | October 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Times never ran the letter, but the right-of-center blog power line did, and a conservative star was born.
The Wall Street Money Men Behind a Right-Wing Star | Patricia Murphy | September 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn South Carolina, it was a new interstate highway, in New Hampshire, it was burying a power line coming in from Canada.
Newt Gingrich’s Blowhard Ideas Go Nowhere, CNN GOP Debate Rivals Say | Lois Romano | January 27, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTWatch as these geniuses set a Christmas tree on fire in their backyard—under a tree and what appears to be a power line.
Christmas Trees on Fire: The Best PSA (VIDEO) | Brittany Jones-Cooper | December 21, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTBut we also thought a power line might have fallen, because there was smoke immediately and the smell of burning.
Looking away toward the top of the ridge where a single power line cut across to a distant coal mine, he said, “We might do it.”
Red Dynamite | Roy J. SnellIs there any power line passing within twenty miles of here?
Electricity is in use on many farms, being supplied from either an individually owned plant or a nearby power line.
North Dakota | VariousThe power line and the high steel tower were hurtling at him.
A Yankee Flier in Italy | Rutherford G. MontgomeryIn five minutes the power line had been cut and cables spliced to the ends.
Astounding Stories, May, 1931 | Various
British Dictionary definitions for power line
a set of conductors used to transmit and distribute electrical energy: Sometimes shortened to: line
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