: a period of time when there is no electricity in a building or area
Examples of power cut in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebThe Cannes Film Festival managed to avoid pensions reform’s protests and a power cut during its entire duration, but Palme d’Or winning director Justine Triet made up for both with a fiery political speech that took aim at the French government.—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 May 2023 Apple via David Nield Having a laptop at hand (and fully charged) is clearly going to be of more use in a power cut than a desktop computer.—David Nield, WIRED, 9 July 2023 Five years later, the 72-year-old’s story remains at the heart of efforts to prevent others in Arizona from having their power cut off, leaving them without life-saving air conditioning in temperatures that have topped 110 degrees on every day this month.—Anita Snow, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023 With the power cut, a generator pumped running water to the building for only an hour a day.—Vivian Yee, New York Times, 4 May 2023 The commission kept the price at the $9,000 cap for four days as the state saw power cut off to nearly half of Texans on the Electric Reliability Council of Texas’ power grid.—Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023 The current power cut has already lasted ten hours today.—Rica Cerbarano, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2023
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