ampere

in a sentence

The drill expects 28.8 V and pulls 9 amps.†  (source) Andy Weir, The Martian, 2011

In the barn, someone has set up speakers and amps and even two enormous, industrial-sized lamps, which make everyone close to the stage look starkly white and hyper-real, and everyone else dark and indistinct, blurry.†  (source) Lauren Oliver, Delirium, 2011

Next to it is another semi, full of amps and other sound gear.†  (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

They could all be asleep except for the fact that Amp's eyes are open and staring at nothing.†  (source) Neal Shusterman, Unwind, 2007

A row of dials slung under the dash registered amps, oil pressure, and tach (whatever that was).†  (source) Stephen King, Carrie, 1974

Isabel, with her eyes bent, fingered the pages of M. Ampere.†  (source) Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2, 1881

A deep hum reverberated across the island, like a bass amp turned to maximum.†  (source) Rick Riordan, The Sword of Summer, 2015

We were so nervous that we turned the amps up too loud, creating a frenzy of feedback that made the neighbors complain, and then we overcompensated by playing so low that we couldn't hear one another's instruments.†  (source) Gayle Forman, Where She Went, 2011

"Audacity," he exclaimed to himself, "as inspired, perhaps, as a Lavoisier's or an Ampere's, the audacity of a Vinteuil making experiment, discovering the secret laws that govern an unknown force, driving across a region unexplored towards the one possible goal the invisible team in which he has placed his trust and which he never may discern!"†  (source) Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, 1913

Ted was standing glumly next to his amp, as if he'd lost a bet.†  (source) Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby, 2002

It sounded awful, and the amps began to whine on either side of the stage.†  (source) Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures, 2009

Isabel, with her eyes bent, fingered the pages of M. Ampere.†  (source) Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2, 1881

"Sorry, dude," said Elijah, fiddling with his amp.†  (source) R. J. Palacio, Augie & Me, 2015