How to Use high-voltage in a Sentence

high-voltage

adjective
  • When high-voltage lines are hit, there are no easy alternatives.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 23 Dec. 2025
  • There was even a new high-voltage wiring system to allow for thinner, lighter wiring to save weight.
    — David Szondy, New Atlas, 25 Dec. 2024
  • In their eyes, a high-voltage power line proposed to cut through the area could put all that in jeopardy.
    — Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 11 Dec. 2025
  • If adding one high-tech, high-voltage turbocharger is good, surely two would be better, right?
    — ArsTechnica, 27 Oct. 2025
  • These are high-voltage connections.
    — Mark Phelan, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Above them, shrouded in smoke, was a high-voltage transmission tower.
    — John Riha, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Snow or ice can accumulate on these high-voltage elements and cause them to arc.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Pops of high-voltage pinks and blues send a shock wave through the relatively muted palette.
    — House Beautiful, 2 Mar. 2023
  • There’s still gloss, still emotion, still the high-voltage pulse of pop running through it—but the center has shifted.
    — Desjah Altvater, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Why wasn't the power shut off entirely in these super high-voltage power lines?
    — Tonya Mosley, NPR, 5 Jan. 2026
  • There have been brief power outages under high-voltage lines, and crews are working on repairs.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Pizarro has said the winds didn’t meet the company’s threshold in place at the time for turning off those high-voltage wires.
    — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Electric eels stun their prey with powerful shocks produced by a sleeve of high-voltage tissue.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
  • That means a 160-foot-tall, high-voltage pylon would stand in a farmer’s field about an eighth of a mile from her house.
    — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Two were electrocuted to death while hiding in a high-voltage transformer.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
  • Studies have found that high-voltage transmission lines can affect wildlife and ecosystems.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2026
  • The answer to bolstering power grids is not just to build more high-voltage transmission lines.
    — Fangxing Fran Li, The Conversation, 27 May 2026
  • The answer to bolstering power grids is not just to build more high-voltage transmission lines.
    — Sufan Jiang, Fortune, 30 May 2026
  • The company revealed that the high-voltage battery may overheat.
    — USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Plus, their safe low-voltage wattage provides the same light as high-voltage options but with less risk and using less energy.
    — Christina Shepherd McGuire, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 May 2024
  • The driver said the temperature was neither too hot nor too cold and a high-voltage battery warning lit up.
    — Detroit Free Press, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Projects have struggled with securing enough labor and high-voltage equipment, the report says.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 11 Sep. 2024
  • She’s known for her high-voltage blend of Latin, electronic, afro and pop sounds as well as her powerful vocals.
    — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
  • These high-voltage power lines are the latest front line in the battle over tech firms' massive operations.
    — ABC News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • These high-voltage power lines are the latest front line in the battle over tech firms’ massive operations.
    — Marc Levy, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2026
  • However, local wind and solar sources don’t need high-voltage power lines and could reduce the need for these lines in the future.
    — Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 4 Dec. 2024
  • In other words, the governor is OK if the high-voltage transmission line gets built.
    — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 29 May 2025
  • Wiring high-voltage and control lines from units to circuit breakers and securing the connections.
    — Nick Perry, USA Today, 28 May 2026
  • Contactors are high-voltage switches that connect the battery pack to the rest of the vehicle's system.
    — PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The new high-voltage transmission lines would cross their original home farm, down the road from my grandparents’ old property.
    — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Mar. 2025

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