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• The electrifying beat sent pulses of energy through my body.From the entry pulses
• They came within a hair's breadth of contacting electrified water.From the entry hair's breadth
• Yes, it was electrified, but it was done so using a soon-to-be non-standard system.2021 July 14, Pip Dunn, “Woodhead 40 years on: time to let go”, in RAIL, number 935, page 38. From the entry soon-to-be
• Five years of work and a hundred miles of electrified fence couldn't prepare the other island.1997, David Koepp (screenplay), The Lost World: Jurassic Park, spoken by Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), Universal Pictures. From the entry Marlboro Man
• We're living in electrifying days of fulfillment of ancient Biblical prophecies.1974, Hal Lindsey, “Foreward”, in The Coming Russian Invasion of Israel, Chicago: Moody Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 5. From the entry king of the north
• Moreover, a diagrammatic map of the electrified area is repeated at the top of every page.1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714. From the entry diagrammatic
• The railway consists of some 18 miles of double track electrified on the overhead principle.1957 June, F. K. Pearson, “The Manx Electric Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 425. From the entry overhead
• Whenever the Bobbies heard my step on the long outside stair, every body electrified.1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts. From the entry crimpy
• Otherwise, we would not be talking about electrifying the main lines, as the work would have been long since done.2021 April 7, Christian Wolmar, “Electrification is a given... but comfort matters as well”, in RAIL, number 928, page 47. From the entry stop-start
• "Secondly, we have to find more cost-effective ways of electrifying.2020 May 20, Andrew Haines talks to Stefanie Foster, “Repurpose rail for the 2020s”, in Rail, page 33. From the entry breakthrough
• The speech might have been electrifying close up, Mr.2013 June 18, Alison Smale, “Reception for Obama Is More Sober Than in 2008”, in New York Times. From the entry electrifying
• Chess clambered to his feet, feeling power surge along nerves and muscles, electrifying and painful with his fury.2010, Gemma Files, edited by Sandra Kasturi, A Book of Tongues (The Hexslinger Series; 1), Toronto, Ont.: ChiZine Publications, →ISBN. From the entry inflood
• I felt freeze-dried as the icy cold electrified my vitals.2007, Michael Hite, The Last Boat, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry wild as a Tuckernuck steer
• Thrilly jolts of ecstasy electrified his junkie loins.2004, Iceberg Slim, Airtight Willie & Me. From the entry thrilly
• No doubt there are boys today whose twiddlings with an electrified guitar will lead them into rewarding careers like Kenin's.1970, United States. Congress, Congressional Record. From the entry twiddling
• In an electrifying atmosphere on Court Philippe Chatrier, Alcaraz produced the finest performance of his career to claim a fifth major title.2025 June 8, Jonathan Jurejko, “Alcaraz stuns Sinner in extraordinary French Open final”, in BBC. From the entry electrifying
• "We strongly urge the Government to crack on with projects for electrifying lines throughout the UK or identify alternative lower-carbon motive power solutions."2023 March 22, “Select Committee wants electrification at the heart of low-carbon initiative”, in RAIL, number 979, page 8. From the entry crack on
• It develops a use case in which an electrified three-wheeled cargo bike will become an on-demand, shared autonomous vehicle for the city.2022 July 24, Katie Plant and Gesa Praetorius, Human Factors in Transportation, AHFE International, →ISBN, page 568. From the entry cargo bike
• Work to electrify the East Kilbride line in Scotland will begin imminently, with foundations to be installed for the overhead line equipment.2021 March 10, “Network News: Work to start on East Kilbride wires”, in RAIL, number 926, page 27. From the entry imminently
• The line along the southeastern coast and through the Huadong Valley (花東縱谷) is Taiwan’s only main railway line that is not fully electrified.2020 December 18, Shelley Shan, “Electrified South Link Line services to start on Sunday”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from…. From the entry Huadong Valley
• My suggestion would be to electrify the uphill bits only, in each direction, and to use diesel traction when coming down the other side.2016 December 9, Andrew Clarke, “Re: Great Western Railway warns of slower journeys on new trains”, in uk.railway (Usenet), retrieved 10…. From the entry knitting
• Wearing an Audie Murphy black jacket, playing a Chuck Berry guitar, and performing his electrified alienation with passionate indifference, Dylan assassinated the audience.1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, in The Realist, number 61, retrieved 13 Nov 2022, page 11. From the entry alienation
• Then the tramway proprietors decided to electrify their line, and cut the fares by half, and the railway was soon feeling the pinch.1954 May, H. Fayle, “Dublin Suburban Services”, in Railway Magazine, page 300. From the entry feel the pinch
• The effect on the company of this wholly unexpected act of grace - largesse of beer from a curate - was electrifying.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 18. From the entry largesse
• The lady rode hastily away, and electrified her relatives at dinner by telling them of her escape from a family of dangerous lunatics.1902, E. Nesbit, Five Children and It. From the entry at large
• Audi, which markets a variety of electrified S.U.V.s like the E-tron, is developing other designs as pure electrics, said an Audi of America spokesman, Mark Dahncke.2021 February 4, Stephen Williams, “E.V.s Force Carmakers to Reinvent the Wheel, and Brakes, and Mirrors …”, in The New York Times…. From the entry SUV
• The GWML is now electrified - and from early next year, Intercity Express Trains will be able to run from London-Cardiff Central completely on electric power.2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Railway's 2020 vision”, in Rail, page 3. From the entry shake-up
• Sneakage occurs when a portion of the gas bypasses the electrified regions of the ESP by flowing through the hopper area and high voltage feed-through areas.2012, Barbara Toole-O'Neil, Dry Scrubbing Technologies for Flue Gas Desulfurization, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry sneakage
• The whole of the main lines to be electrified were being equipped with four-aspect colour-light signals, automatically operated, where appropriate, and spaced to give a 5min headway throughout.1961 December, “Planning the London Midland main-line electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 719. From the entry aspect
• The trials were conducted to assess the suitability of four-motor power cars on high-speed push-and-pull workings, with a view to possible operation of the electrified Waterloo-Bournemouth services by these methods.1961 December, “Talking of Trains: Push-and-pull to Bournemouth?”, in Trains Illustrated, page 707. From the entry push-and-pull
• It is most probable that all matter is simply the allotropic expression of one element and that the protomolecule is the union of the positively and negatively electrified etheric corpuscle.1912, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record. From the entry protomolecule

Meaning of electrify

1. verb To supply electricity to; to charge with electricity.
2. verb To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to.
3. verb To adapt (a home, farm, village, city, industry, vehicle, railroad) for electric power.

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How do you use electrify in a sentence?

Electrify is used as a verb. For example: “Her performance in the play electrified the audience.”

What is a short sentence with electrify?

“to electrify a cable”

What does electrify mean?

Electrify means to supply electricity to; to charge with electricity.