How to Use megawatt in a Sentence

megawatt

noun
  • Koy said with a megawatt smile.
    — Deputy Entertainment, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Fall then marked the megawatt return of glass skin.
    — Jacqueline Kilikita, Refinery29, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Liu did it all with a megawatt smile beaming to the world.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Google has already agreed to buy 200 megawatts.
    — Harry Booth, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Before the storm the rate was $50 per megawatt hour, the suit states.
    — Marlene Lenthang, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The chanteuse's megawatt smile captured the hearts of many during her short time with us.
    — Katarina Avendano, Good Housekeeping, 12 May 2022
  • One megawatt is enough to power the average home for about a month.
    — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • But perhaps most striking of all was her megawatt necklace.
    — Meg Walters, InStyle, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Which megawatt pop star announced her engagement this week?
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Once used, they are canceled to prevent the same megawatt hour from being claimed twice.
    — Jennifer McDermott, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Or is megawatt charging just overkill, as some skeptics suggest?
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Duckie Thot turned 26 last week, and showed off a megawatt look just days ago.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Crusoe will have about 200 megawatts by year’s end, Lochmiller said.
    — Belle Lin, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Hayward trails in second place, with four projects for 975 megawatts.
    — Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 21 Dec. 2025
  • That megawatt charisma steered midnight movies deeper into the drag world.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2025
  • One Megapack can provide up to 1 megawatt of power for four hours.
    — Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 20 June 2025
  • One megawatt can power 200 Texas homes in the heat of summer.
    — Rye Druzin, Houston Chronicle, 13 July 2018
  • The deal is projected to bring 500 megawatts of power to the grid.
    — CBS News, 16 Oct. 2024
  • That price compared with normal rates of about $25 to $30 per megawatt-hour.
    — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2021
  • For context, one megawatt is enough to meet the demand of roughly 750 homes.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Firm wind-plus-storage systems range from about $59 to $94 per megawatt-hour.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • In late winter, the average was about $500 per megawatt hour.
    — Krisztian Elcsics, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2026
  • Now, a 110-megawatt battery storage system has been added.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • By Friday, the price declined to as little as $38 per megawatt hour.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Compare this to the Millstone units which make more than 2,100 megawatts.
    — Krisztian Elcsics, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2026
  • The dream is to scale up to 20-megawatt projects that can compete with other energy sources.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The Carters’ laugh and cry and hug and flash their megawatt smiles when Chicago takes their son with the seventh pick.
    — Charlotte Wilder, SI.com, 25 June 2018
  • At the centre of everything, juggling phone calls and high fives with the youngsters, is a man with a megawatt smile.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The standard rate paid for Glen Canyon’s low-cost power is $30 per megawatt hour.
    — Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The first data center uses about 450 megawatts.
    — Ricardo Torres, jsonline.com, 18 Sep. 2025

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