Example Sentences

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A television scanning disk looks over the grey shadows piece meal, lets them illuminate three photo electric cells.

From Time Magazine Archive

Germany's Siemens is vying with such firms as Amoco in the U.S. and Sanyo in Japan to produce cheap, efficient solar electric cells.

From Time Magazine Archive

Both the stump and the pulpit were centers of energy, electric cells capable of starting widespreading fires.

From The Frontier in American History by Turner, Frederick Jackson

Every electric cell and battery contains acid and alkaline elements; and the human body is a dynamo made up of innumerable minute electric cells and batteries in the forms of living, protoplasmic cells and organs.

From Nature Cure by Lindlahr, Henry

This is run into electric cells and through these a current of electricity is led.

From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Miller, Kelly