Sentence examples for electric raise from inspiring English sources

Pressure cookers, which are either stovetop or electric, raise the temperature of water before boiling and trap steam.

The British public's response was, the exhibition says, "electric," raising the equivalent of $7 million for the victims' families.

Elevated transit line, railroad line, usually electric, raised above the ground or street level, usually on a trestle, for local transit in urban areas.

For nearly a month, he was cordoned behind a tarp-covered chain-link fence, standing in the square carriage of an electric lift that can raise him 30 feet high.

Electric motors raise and lower the column, and turn a sampling tray as required to separate the various settling velocity classes.

Lighting a gas or electric fireplace raises the number, while using a wood-burning fireplace does not.

And Ridley Scott's adaptation of the Philip K Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? raises philosophical and ethical questions about the differences between humans and "skin-jobs".

In between he peddled trinkets, operated an electric plant, raised chickens for the Army, sailed on cargo schooners, excavated Indian burial grounds and gathered coral.

That electric start raised the volume in an already noisy Parc des Princes, but the hosts failed to build on it.

The new funding comes on top of about $8 million that Electric Imp raised two years ago from Redpoint Ventures and Lowercase Capital.

A proposed agreement between state regulators and the agency that buys electricity for millions of Californians would allow the state to raise electric rates without outside review.