How to Use hydro in a Sentence

hydro

noun
  • Choose from floss mode and hydro pulse massage mode.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Many in the area keep talking about who should own the hydro plant, Lange said.
    — CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • The islands are ripe with fuel for wind, hydro and tidal power.
    — Sarah Kollmorgen, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2015
  • Some of these wildcats require their brass to be fire- or hydro-formed before use.
    — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Is Amazon going to find hydro where it hasn't been found before?
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Hall plans to build a home with its own hydro-electric dam, plumbing and electrical systems.
    — Ryan Brennan april 15, Kansas City Star, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Could San Juan County be home to the country’s largest pump-hydro plant?
    — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Not just this, it can also be used to protect wind turbines, coal plants, hydro energy projects, and more.
    — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2025
  • But hydro is not a top priority for federal and state water projects.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The hydro going to industry is from rivers spinning gristmills.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Depending on the next couple of months, that may allow solar to pass hydro on the list of renewables.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Less than 12 percent of their energy comes from renewables, with most from wood and hydro.
    — Bjorn Lomborg, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • More serious cases will require hydro jetting from a plumbing expert to break through all of the buildup.
    — Emily Benda Gaylord, The Spruce, 21 May 2026
  • And last year, Juan López, who protested mining and hydro-electric projects, was shot dead on his way home from church.
    — Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Solar and wind are the fastest growing by far, yet hydro and nuclear are rapidly increasing, too.
    — Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Failing hydro power in Zambia last year led to 21-hour blackouts.
    — Mark Gongloff, Denver Post, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Failing hydro power in Zambia last year led to 21-hour blackouts.
    — Mark Gongloff, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Batteries or pumped hydro (or flywheel or gravity systems) will need to store the excess power and fill the gaps for those shady days.
    — Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • And the way to do that has to be through low-carbon energies, ideally wind, solar, tidal, hydro, or nuclear.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Today, our grid consists of a mix of fossil fuels, nuclear, solar, wind, hydro and some other sources.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Young said the state is too reliant on oil, and should look at expanding hydro and geothermal energy production.
    — Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2020
  • In contrast to wind, hydro or geothermal power, solar has a key advantage of being quick to install.
    — William Mathis, Fortune, 3 June 2023
  • Behind the scenes, the property uses wind, solar, and hydro energy sources to help power the hotel.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Behind the scenes, the property uses wind, solar, and hydro energy sources to help power the hotel.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 3 Sep. 2023
  • To check lines, the department will use hydro-excavation, a process that involves high-pressure water to bore into the ground.
    — Suzanne King, Kansas City Star, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Today, two-thirds of our energy comes from clean sources, such as solar, hydro, wind, geothermal, and nuclear power.
    — Sacramento Bee Staff, Sacbee.com, 8 Jan. 2026
  • That time of year also becomes drier and days are shorter, reducing hydro and solar power, officials have said.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
  • To date, wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear have taken the place of more coal use but now seem to be displacing existing consumption as well.
    — Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Beyond the decrepit hydro plant, the entire dam's spillway is too small to pass a probable maximum flood and upgrades could cost millions.
    — CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The roughly 51-mile channel continues to serve as a hydro-highway shuttling stormwater runoff from the mountains to the sea.
    — Emma Bowman, NPR, 17 Nov. 2025

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