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How to use outage in a sentence

23 example sentences · noun

Outage means a temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply. Example: “Since the system outage, I've been unable to log in to my account.”

Examples of outage by meaning

nounA temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.

  • When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2023
  • Along with the planned de-energizations, PG&E customers are also dealing with a number of unplanned power outages – like in Davis, where about 2,700 customers are in the dark, and El Dorado Hills, where more than 5,100 customers are impacted.2026 May 17, Cecilio Padilla, “PG&E planned outages start in Northern California over fire danger”, in CBS News, archived from the original...

More sentences with outage

  • Since the system outage, I've been unable to log in to my account.From the entry account
  • The outage was caused by an upstream error in a payments library.From the entry upstream
  • We had to go showerless all week during the water outage.From the entry showerless
  • During the power outage we had no heat because the controls are electric. Older folks like more heat than the young.From the entry heat
  • Thank you for being a good sport about the power outage. I know three hours with no air conditioning is difficult.From the entry good sport
  • During a power outage, candles sell like hot cakes.From the entry sell like hot cakes
  • The power outage was caused by a downed tree.From the entry downed
  • The light stays on even if there's a power outage.From the entry stay on
  • These frequent Internet outages are testing my patience.From the entry test someone's patience
  • The outage was the latest in a long line of failures of the e-gate system.2024 May 8, Jack Simpson, Rajeev Syal, “What went wrong with the electronic passport gates at UK airports?”, in The Guardian. From the entry e-gate
  • “Oakland Airport Connector service is running limited service due to a power outage.2023 February 19, Michelle Watson, “Bay Area Rapid Transit running limited service to Oakland Airport due to power outage”, in CNN. From the entry pst
  • PG&E had warned that parts of Colusa, Glenn, Tehama, Napa, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Solano and Yolo counties could likely see outages.2026 May 17, Cecilio Padilla, “PG&E planned outages start in Northern California over fire danger”, in CBS News, archived from the…. From the entry Napa County
  • Is the system experiencing an outage?2021 December 4, Barney Ronay, “Thomas Tuchel must gear up for a new phase to reboot glitching Chelsea”, in The Guardian. From the entry flux capacitor
  • Assemblymember Bill Quirk (D-Hayward) has introduced a bill to address power outages caused by metallic film balloons when they come into contact with powerlines.2018 February 14, “Reducing Power Outages Caused by Metallic Balloons is Focus of Bill Introduced Today”, in California State Assembly…. From the entry metallic
  • Farmland in Jianshi county in Hubei province was flooded after the heaviest rainstorm in 36 years, causing landslides, debris flows and power outages.2016 June 3, Nectar Gan, “Storms cause flooding, landslides along Yangtze River in China”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Jianshi
  • Each user-visible outage or SLA violation should be followed by a postmortem and conclude with implementation of the recommendations in the postmortem report.2014 September 3, Thomas A. Limoncelli, Strata R. Chalup, Christina J. Hogan, The Practice of Cloud System Administration (Designing and…. From the entry post mortem
  • After a roughly six-hour outage, popular blogging platform Tumblr was back up Friday afternoon, bringing sweet relief to hipster bloggers, budding photographers and oversharers everywhere.2012 October 26, Doug Gross, “Rejoice, ye bloggers: Tumblr is back up”, in CNN. From the entry oversharer
  • For all she knew, there would be an EMP or a power outage or an undervolt, and she'd lose everything she'd just done.2011, Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill, Conspiracies. From the entry undervolt
  • The outage area continues to expand, stretching from Granite Bay, Newcastle, Loomis, and Auburn across Folsom Lake to Cool, and north through Colfax into Lake of the Pines.2026 June 20, Erin Heft, “Massive PG&E power outage leaves approximately 61,000 customers in the dark across Placer County”, in KCRA…. From the entry Newcastle
  • The issue follows a string of public cloud outages; a reminder that even the best resourced IaaS companies are not immune to development and infrastructure borkage.2019 November 11, Ed Targett, “Google Cloud in Major Global Outage: Numerous Services Fail”, in Computer Business Review. From the entry borkage
  • While planned shutdown for overhailing and maintenance is a regular feature of a power supply system, continued and unplanned outages from installed units require immediate corrective steps.2000, Asom Prakalpa (Group), Assam beyond 2000, page 62. From the entry overhail

Meaning of outage

  1. noun A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.
  2. noun The amount of something lost in storage or transportation.

Full definition of outage

Questions about outage in a sentence

How do you use outage in a sentence?
Outage is used as a noun. For example: “Since the system outage, I've been unable to log in to my account.”
What is a short sentence with outage?
“Is the system experiencing an outage?”
What does outage mean?
Outage means a temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.

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