Sentence examples for drain electricity from inspiring English sources

And the vampires in question were cell-phone chargers that continue to drain electricity even when the phone is not in the cradle.

Millions of new air-conditioners, computers and other gadgets are humming, blinking and draining electricity from the power pool, utility executives and state energy officials said over and over again.

The player can recharge Cole by draining electricity from powered sources or from living beings; recharging also restores Cole's health, though if the player stays out of battle long enough, Cole's health will regenerate over time.

There were brief but regular power glitches from so many TVs and ACs draining our electricity.

And a Democratic president — Bill Clinton — and a Republican Congress overhauled welfare, draining racial electricity from partisan combat.

He stationed men on rooftops to watch for the approach of dark storm clouds -- the kind that would cause customers to turn on their lamps and drain all his electricity unless his boilers were quickly stoked with more coal.

Press and hold your horn for 30 seconds to drain any remaining electricity from the capacitor.

That's a cheap way to reduce the need for not only air conditioning but electric lighting, the largest drain on electricity in commercial buildings.

Officials at American Electric said their system, detecting growing problems to the north, automatically severed connecting lines to cut off a drain of electricity.

The energy will help provide clean drinking water to a populace of close to 10 million people in greater London and the south-east of England, a huge and often unrecognised drain on electricity, rather than nearby homes.

Insurers may insist you turn off the heating and electricity and drain the heating system, or that you leave the heating on low.