high-voltage
operating on or powered by high voltage: a high-voltage generator.
Informal. dynamic; powerful: a high-voltage theatrical entrepreneur.
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How to use high-voltage in a sentence
To commit this “rudimentary political error,” he wrote, was to “touch a high-voltage line.”
China’s Glamorous First Lady Peng Liyuan Saving the Communist Party With Song | Eveline Chao | March 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut according to their assessment, the victim had already died after being electrocuted by the high-voltage fence.
A 2.6-meter high-voltage fence is intended to prevent inmates from escaping.
The high-voltage squabbling over Obamacare has made health care a particularly sore spot in this debate.
Washington’s Silly Plan to Create a National Nurse | Michelle Cottle | February 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe U.S. has 215,000 miles of high-voltage power lines; 70 percent of those are more than 30 years old.
How to Stop Blackouts: Smart-Grid Technology Could Ease Storms’ Aftermath | Miranda Green | November 4, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
An armature wound with very fine wire will deliver a current of high voltage but of low amperage.
Aviation Engines | Victor Wilfred PagIn the Thury system of power transmission high-voltage direct current is used throughout.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia | VariousWe could see that it was fully thirty feet high with what evidently were naked high-voltage wires protecting its top.
Beyond the Vanishing Point | Raymond King CummingsA quivering sensation like a charge of high voltage electricity shot through Dave.
Dave Dawson with the R.A.F | R. Sidney BowenBut before beginning the anodynous "Wormwood," she launched into another high-voltage eulogy of Angelica's brother.
No. 13 Washington Square | Leroy Scott
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