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harnessed

[ UK /hˈɑːnɪst/ ]
[ US /ˈhɑɹnəst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. brought under control and put to use
    electricity from the harnessed Colorado River
    the harnessed power of the atom

How To Use harnessed In A Sentence

  • Wind energy and solar power could be harnessed to heat the dwellings and provide enough energy for daily needs.
  • Any dog not in harness was howling and yelping to be put in one, and even when harnessed they continued with their wretched wailing until they were off and running.
  • In this way, the energy released by the exergonic reaction can be partially harnessed to drive the endergonic one.
  • He harnessed his new-found zeal to a crusade against vice. Times, Sunday Times
  • Machines and engines, pulleys and wheels, and the idea that power could be harnessed by man-made devices made the toilsome labor of the past nearly obsolete.
  • They drove in from neighbouring villages with their produce for sale in a kind of drosky, the _carretella_ as it was called, with its single pony harnessed to the near side of the pole. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II
  • So physicists got to wondering whether radiation pressure could be harnessed to help an item soar.
  • That dangerous throwaway line is frequently harnessed by the enemies of equality as an easy way of evading tough questions. Times, Sunday Times
  • Other companies in the league table have harnessed web-based technologies to streamline business operations. Times, Sunday Times
  • Here these creatures had harnessed the grinding workings of the planets themselves, all to survive, all to call a plaintive note into a still and silent sky. Across The Sea Of Suns
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