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If a machine is electric, it uses electricity. My grandmother wrote her letters on a typewriter; my mother used an electric typewriter, and I use a computer. We bought a new gas stove. It's much faster than our old electric one.

electric

(= electrical) using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity electric current electric wiring electrical appliances an electrical storm (of a situation) exceptionally tense an atmosphere electric with suspicion a car that is powered by electricity (= galvanic) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling gave an electric reading of the play the new leader had a galvanic effect on morale

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Simple sentences

It seems that in Japan too, electric taxis will be operated by robots.
Don't use the iron, electric kettle, and electric stove at the same time.
The strong wind cut the electric wires in several places.
We tend to use more and more electric appliances in the home.
Every hospital has a back-up electric generator in case of blackout.
The river furnishes electric power to the town.
I should have tried out this electric shaver before buying it.
This machine is driven by a small electric motor.
Edison invented the electric lamp.
My brother bought an electric guitar.
My father is an electric engineer.
Steam trains were replaced by electric trains.
Something is wrong with our electric heater.
The electric light went out.
The invention of electric light is accredited to Edison.
An electric current can generate magnetism.
This clock is electric.
Steam locomotives run less smoothly than electric trains.
Electric irons are heated by electricity.
Our electric heater does not work well.
The performance of electric cars has improved.

Movie subtitles

And it felt as if there were. something electric running from the ground up through me.
I did hear we're having the electric lights soon.
I'll have none of this electric light.
We make our own electric light here and we're not really good at it. Pray don't be alarmed if they go out altogether.
Is that train electric?
The men and women of this state elected me partly because I was instrumental in the sentencing of Blackie Gallagher to the electric chair.
Edward J. Gallagher was put to death in the electric chair at Sing Sing for the crime of murder. What you do not know is that he committed the murder to silence scandal about me, which very likely would have cost my election to the governorship.
He's pushing the electric chair right under him.
This is District Attorney Werner, the man who sent you to the electric chair. - Chair.
He sent you to the electric chair for the murder of Judge Shaw. You remember that?
Of what? If I'm not too inquisitive, of sending Ellman to the electric chair on a murder charge for which all of you were responsible.
What have you learned that made you think they sent you to the electric chair?
And as they dragged him to the electric chair he clawed wildly the concrete floor with agonized shrieks.
A home electric plant.
I've been on the pan, I've been called an electric fan, told I'm even much colder than Frigidaire.
Is that train electric? Yes.
Don't be afraid, we just passed the electric eye which detects metal.
And as they dragged him to the electric chair.. heclawedwildlythe concretefloor with agonized shrieks.
Electric washer.
Electric washer! You know the one you like?
Massages, electric cabinets.
It's an electric eye door.
Look at that electric light.
I'm gonna sit me up all night long and look at that electric light.
Amusing invention, the electric chair.
I have a trap set, electric eye principle.
The electric chair.
I use an electric razor now.
HA HA HA! THAT'S THE ELECTRIC CURRENT.
Then somebody goes to the electric chair, and it won't be me.
You left the electric light burning in your classroom all last night.
And get yourself some old electric bulbs and throw 'em.
Electric stove, refrigerator, washing machine, everything.
You disturbed the electric compass.
She's gonna have a real home, electric lights, plumbing, soft furniture and right near the home port.
What, that guy here reminds me of is an electric fence.
You ever tried sitting pretty in an electric chair?
Paul's sister and his sweetheart, both trying to steer him into the electric chair.
I'm telling you, she's been trying to shove you into the electric chair by writing anonymous letters to Farr and everybody else.
Trying to shove Paul into the electric chair.

News and current affairs

In particular, should governments, especially those that are endlessly building up dollar reserves, instead start thinking about how to build up their roads, bridges, ports, electric grids, and other infrastructure?
It is also the reason that global companies like General Electric and Siemens are betting their future on green.
Yet, just 1,536 of Denmark's 2.7 million cars are electric.
Infant mortality has been cut in half, more citizens than ever enjoy educational opportunities, and electric, telephone, and sanitation services have expanded to serve a greater number of people.
Electric vehicles will need large adjustments to infrastructure.
Meanwhile, France relies heavily on low-carbon nuclear power, and is switching rapidly to electric vehicles, such as the pioneering Renault-Nissan Leaf.
The state-owned oil (Pemex) and electric power (Federal Electricity Commission) companies face no competition.
New hybrid automobiles, pioneered by Toyota, use both gasoline and electric power to boost gasoline efficiency by approximately two-fold.
He was arrested after complaining to foreign reporters, and has since been administered medicine and forced to undergo electric shock therapy.
The energy giants ExxonMobil and General Electric are the first and tenth largest corporate buyers of their own shares.
Furthermore, MIT has developed the foldable electric CityCar, four of which can fit into a conventional parking space.
For example, some experts believe that a nation's electric power grid may be particularly susceptible.
In the developed world today, electric stoves and heaters have banished indoor air pollution.
The age of electric vehicles is upon us.
LAGOS - Few infrastructure services in the developed world may be as taken for granted as electric power.
Apart from electric-power generation, coal also has wide application in a number of industries.
Africa is a continent rich in energy, holding two-thirds of the world's reserves of hydro-electric power - trillions of kilowatt-hours representing about half of total world resources.
Since China will be the most important market of the future, it will be decisive in determining not only what we produce and consume, but how. Consider the transition from the traditional automobile to electric transport.
During Cardoso's tenure, he privatized telecoms, the national mining company and part of the electric sector.
The face of General Electric's longtime boss Jack Welch is in bookstore windows across China, although his latest book is probably a pirated edition because China still has a way to go on copyright protection.
The first is energy conservation through more fuel-efficient vehicles. New hybrid automobiles, pioneered by Toyota, use both gasoline and electric power to boost gasoline efficiency by approximately two-fold.
Consider the transition from the traditional automobile to electric transport.
Most of China's dams serve multiple functions, including generating electric power and meeting manufacturing, mining, irrigation, and municipal-supply water needs.

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