How to Use gas turbine in a Sentence

gas turbine

noun
  • There’s a backlog of at least three to five years on new gas turbines.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Dec. 2025
  • We’re told there’s a five– to seven-year wait to purchase new gas turbines.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The price of gas turbines is going up as the cost of renewables comes down.
    — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Profits have dropped amid high costs and flagging demand for gas turbines.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The reason for two islands is, simply put, due to the gas turbine exhausts.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2021
  • Sales fell 9% in the power unit, which is mired in a market slump that’s sapping demand for gas turbines.
    — Bloomberg, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Demand response can drop a load just as quickly as firing up a gas turbine to meet that load, Brown said.
    — Travis Loller, ajc, 2 July 2021
  • This eliminates the complex plumbing required to make a gas turbine work.
    — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The industry’s response so far has been to reach for the same gas turbines and engines that have powered the grid for fifty years.
    — Vinod Khosla, Fortune, 30 June 2026
  • Zunum is designing its plane as a hybrid -- battery-powered with a gas turbine as a backup.
    — CBS News, 9 June 2018
  • David was a welder and mechanic on steam and gas turbines, and was a gifted athlete, his obituary said.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
  • With current gas turbine backlogs, a natural gas plant can take five years and nuclear a decade or more.
    — Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Kutscher said gas turbines could be used in those cases and wouldn’t have to run 24 hours a day like a reactor would.
    — Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Such robots will also be used to inspect and repair GE’s gas turbines.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • The city is home to Parker’s gas turbine fuel systems division.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The company supplied three compressor units designed for the plant’s gas turbines.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 26 June 2026
  • Revenue growth was driven by strong demand for heavy-duty gas turbine equipment, services volume growth, and price hikes.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
  • As with the local gas turbines, the goal is to transition to 100% green hydrogen.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
  • Its gas turbines are sold out through 2028 with a backlog that stood at 55 gigawatts in June.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2025
  • This method is distinct from direct hydrogen combustion in a gas turbine engine.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025
  • In other words, customers placing new orders for these heavy-duty gas turbines can face wait times that extend several years.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The methane gas turbines, located near homes and schools, are known to produce a cocktail of toxic pollutants.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 17 June 2026
  • With products from gas turbines to steel and aluminum affected, the spat threatens to raise costs, slow economic growth and erode oil demand.
    — Grant Smith, Houston Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2018
  • One tactic is to increase a gas turbine engine’s bypass ratio so that more air flows around the combustion chamber instead of through it.
    — Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2022
  • The company’s gas turbines have seen strong demand as providers seek to address the growing energy needs of data centers.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Earnings in the business, which mainly sells gas turbines, fell by 58% in the quarter compared with a year earlier.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 20 July 2018
  • When time is money, solar could be an attractive option, especially now — demand has made new gas turbines hard to come by.
    — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • On the surface, that success appears to be largely from the growing demand for the company’s gas turbine business.
    — Justin Worland, Time, 8 May 2026
  • The batteries also help prevent damage to gas turbines that aren’t designed to be used for frequent ramping cycles.
    — Mark Chediak, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • In order to power the massive machine, the company has used gas turbines, according to the reports.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 16 Dec. 2025

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