6 examples of high-tension in sentences

Röntgen discovered that the invisible rays, or radiation, emitted from certain parts of a high-vacuum tube, when high-tension discharges from induction coils were passing, possessed the curious property of traversing certain opaque substances as readily as light does glass or water.

In high-tension circuits over which such pressures as 50,000 volts is transmitted, no little difficulty is experienced from leakage and consequent loss of energy.

He was small physically, but his skinny arms and legs looked as if they were made of high-tension wire.

High-tension currents are used for electric lighting in America, and all wires are carried overhead along the streets.

In another moment he had it over the engine, protecting the spark plugs and the high-tension wires from the rain and spray.

"We haven't the available power, now, for high-tension current.

6 examples of  high-tension  in sentences