Grid

//ɡɹɪd//

"Grid" in a Sentence (17 examples)

Solar storms next year could prove disastrous for the electrical grid.

He lives off the grid.

The existing grid mechanism is used to provide a metadata registry. It defines high level APIs that manage transaction-based replication across multiple domains and move legacy software to the grid smoothly.

She's off the grid, and European authorities want her arrested.

Tom lives off the grid.

This house is off the grid.

In the Caribbean, Hurricanes Irma and Maria caused catastrophic damage to infrastructure, including the complete failure of Puerto Rico’s power grid.

Tom and Mary live off the grid.

This area of Algeria is connected to the national grid.

Here and there, the regularity of the street grid is unexpectedly interrupted by narrow, winding lanes.

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You can't turn off the building from here; you have to shut down the whole grid.

[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. 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.

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton fought up from the back of the grid to eighth, with team-mate Jenson Button taking ninth.

They camped that night at Dingo Creek, the fire Jim quickly made, Put the Billy on the cross-piece, pitched the tent, Brought a steak from 'neath the saddle-flap, and on the "grid" 'twas laid, A piece of rusty fencing wire, well bent.

Everything on the grid – all the backdrops and curtains, anything that has to move up and down from the fly-tower – has to be counterweighted.

On the SAT, to answer a grid-in question, you grid in your answer by filling out the ovals.

The cause of the disorder is unknown. Researchers call it A.I.D., for acquired immunodeficiency disease, or GRID, for gay-related immunodeficiency. It has been reported in 20 states and seven countries.

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