How to Use battery in a Sentence

battery

noun
  • I bought new batteries for the flashlights.
  • The operation was performed by a battery of doctors.
  • And the battery didn’t change much.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 10 May 2026
  • Then there’s the battery and range.
    — New Atlas, 14 Mar. 2026
  • That's one less battery to keep charged.
    — New Atlas, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Plus, the battery life can last up to six weeks.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2026
  • Check out the free tool and battery deals right here.
    — Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The air smells like a battery and like a dead thing.
    — Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Its battery can last for up to 10 days.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The camera and battery are two right off the bat.
    — Lance Whitney, PC Magazine, 14 Mar. 2026
  • But that's for a model built to hold its own battery.
    — New Atlas, 20 Apr. 2026
  • How does the battery perform in the cold?
    — Adam Trenkamp, Outside, 11 Jan. 2026
  • If the battery has a charge, the tool is going to work.
    — Campbell Vaughn, USA Today, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The battery is like a fuel tank.
    — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • O’Neil, who is white, was charged with two counts of battery.
    — Bry'onna Mention, Essence, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The catch is that the batteries drain.
    — Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026
  • My phone was turned off to preserve battery for our five-day trip.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2022
  • There’s a green bulb up front, charged off the engine battery.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • When the electrodes stay apart, the battery doesn’t catch fire.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Her noise battery never runs out.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Some users wanted more battery life.
    — Harry Bennett, Space.com, 23 June 2026
  • Just make the battery bigger, right?
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The lid of the battery pack is the bottom of the car, which saves height and weight.
    — James Morris, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The battery does not need to be plugged in to be charged (though that is an option).
    — Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The battery does not need to be plugged in to be charged (though that is an option).
    — Liam Rappleye, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Our new suite of Pebbles have battery lives of weeks.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • An hour in, Casanova stopped to check my battery.
    — Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2025
  • This battery is built for large storage sites that can support the grid.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
  • Each battery fields eight missiles.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Do not store the batteries in the flashlights from year to year.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 May 2026

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