How to Use static electricity in a Sentence

static electricity

noun
  • In dry weather, static electricity can cause clothes to cling.
  • Why not skip the dryer sheets and use these tips to reduce static electricity?
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Aluminum sheets were placed in the front and rear wheel wells that are meant to remove static electricity from the bumper.
    — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 21 June 2023
  • This results in over-drying your clothes and more static electricity.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2025
  • The fibers are then charged by passing them through a device that produces static electricity.
    — USA Today, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Think headache, lethargy, and the feeling as if your brain has been replaced by static electricity.
    — Alisa Bowman, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Sure enough, when the kite was in the sky, static electricity moved down the wet string as far as the key—but not through the silk ribbon to his body.
    — Timothy J. Jorgensen, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2021
  • When the opposing charges switch places, static electricity is released and gives birth to the flash of blue seen above the clouds.
    — Popular Science, 26 Jan. 2021
  • Its main job is to rub against the eyelid during a blink to generate a small amount of static electricity.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 12 Jan. 2026
  • With less humidity comes static electricity and clothes that cling to your body.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2025
  • The electrical arcs would feel and sound like strong static electricity sparks, says Chide.
    — Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 26 Nov. 2025
  • It is said that static electricity follows the path of least resistance.
    — Andy Saunders, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2021
  • If that's a static electricity interaction, how did the sock get charged?
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The very dry air (dew points in the single digits) doesn’t help either, and there is sure to be lots of static electricity in the air tonight.
    — Greg Porter, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Especially if there’s a lot of static electricity in the air.
    — Jay Martel, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Windowsills get dusty really fast when dry air causes static electricity in your home.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The cool air in a freezer helps eliminate some of the static electricity that makes the plastic wrap stick to itself.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Vapors from butane can release gas clouds, and a mere spark of static electricity can set off a fiery explosion.
    — Priscella Vega, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Promises of static electricity charging devices have often been, well, so much hot, sandy wind.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2020
  • One key to harvesting the ocean’s clean energy—at least a little of it—may lie in static electricity.
    — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Dew points may get very dry, into the 30s, producing some small static electricity again or even some dry skin.
    — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 17 June 2022
  • Think of static electricity, which is an electric charge often produced by friction.
    — Kenneth McLeod, The Conversation, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The static electricity forms in the dryer as loose electrons give clothing atoms a negative charge.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2024
  • The static electricity forms in the dryer as loose electrons give clothing atoms a negative charge.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 2 July 2026
  • One cause is static electricity from particles rubbing together in dense ash clouds near the ground.
    — Fox News, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Buildings were burned after being struck by lightning from static electricity in the ash cloud, which reached the stratosphere.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 28 May 2018
  • Users with fine hair often have a problem with static electricity, creating frizziness and fly-away strands.
    — Michael Pollick, chicagotribune.com, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Friction between the glass and the leather pads produced static electricity, which was then stored in the Leyden jar.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Nov. 2018
  • In the dry desert environment, wind moving over dirt and sand particles can be enough to build up a cache of static electricity.
    — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 20 June 2016
  • And while cats are not the main culprits of creating this static electricity, their fur is an ideal conductor.
    — New Atlas, 26 Sep. 2024

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