power failure

How To Use power failure In A Sentence

• the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster
• More than 27,000 homes were plunged into darkness by a major power failure.
• If there is a power failure, the emergency generators should come on line within 15 minutes.
• However, this meant there was temporary overloading on other supply sources, causing power failures in various parts of the town.
• · The versatility of the machine is a further important criterium, that is, the possibility of providing a variety of moulds (even special ones made to order) which are easy to change in a short time (say less than one hour), the possibility of adjusting output rates to the local conditions, the possibility of switching from automatic control to manual operation in case of power failure, etc. Chapter 5
• Our reliance on such machinery was previously highlighted two years ago, when the hospital's theatres and intensive care unit were hit by power failures.
• a power failure temporarily darkened the town
• Fires, power failures, transit delays and more than a few sunburns were being attributed to the heat, which was caused by a high pressure area over the West Coast that created what meteorologists call compressional heating. SFGate: Top News Stories
• Also: panné (e) = broke (c'est une panné = he's penniless) une panne de courant/d'électricité = power failure une panne de moteur = engine failure Savoir Vivre
• He could no longer wave it off as an equipment or power failure at the downlink. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER