Below you will find example sentences with "obtain energy". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Obtain Energy in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 5
  • Discovered as a combination around: obtain
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 3
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 25.8 words

Words in this phrase

obtain energy

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • obtain can mean: To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way. Frequent word
  • energy can mean: The impetus behind all motion and all activity. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 0 start, 4 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

and chemoheterotrophs obtain energy from inorganic 1× and photoheterotrophs obtain energy from light 1× expect to obtain energy in this 1× hao cannot obtain energy from as 1× must then obtain energy by burning 1× oxygen to obtain energy for their 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

hao cannot obtain 1× many runners report 1× organisms can be 1× rutherford s speech 1× these animals metabolize 1×

Common sentence endings:

as iii oxidation 1× burn as readily 1× dioxide as byproducts 1× in this way 1× inorganic oxidation reactions 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

oxidation 2× processes 2× organisms 1× further 1× classified 1× ultimate 1× source 1× photoautotrophs 1× photoheterotrophs 1× light 1× chemoautotrophs 1× chemoheterotrophs 1×

Related phrases

renewable energy solar energy wind energy dark energy energy efficiency energy storage nuclear energy energy transition kinetic energy potential energy

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around obtain:

must obtain 8× obtain license 3×

Just before it in the phrase index:

obama white obama administration oaks christian oakland raiders nyse xom nyse jpm

Just after it in the phrase index:

obtain license occasioning actual occupational therapy occupied east occupied territories occupied territory

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

obtain license

Same ending:

renewable energy solar energy wind energy dark energy nuclear energy kinetic energy

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "obtain energy" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and chemoheterotrophs obtain energy from inorganic, and photoheterotrophs obtain energy from light, oxidation, processes and organisms stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with renewable energy, solar energy, wind energy, must obtain and obtain license, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with obtain energy

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

HAO cannot obtain energy from As(III) oxidation. (8 words)

These animals metabolize sugar and oxygen to obtain energy for their cell-building processes, including secretion of the exoskeleton, with water and carbon dioxide as byproducts. (26 words)

Organisms can be further classified by ultimate source of their energy: photoautotrophs and photoheterotrophs obtain energy from light, whereas chemoautotrophs and chemoheterotrophs obtain energy from inorganic oxidation reactions. (28 words)

Longer example sentences

Rutherford's speech in part, read: We might in these processes obtain very much more energy than the proton supplied, but on the average we could not expect to obtain energy in this way. (34 words)

Many runners report that running becomes noticeably more difficult at that point. citation When glycogen runs low, the body must then obtain energy by burning stored fat, which does not burn as readily. (33 words)

Organisms can be further classified by ultimate source of their energy: photoautotrophs and photoheterotrophs obtain energy from light, whereas chemoautotrophs and chemoheterotrophs obtain energy from inorganic oxidation reactions. (28 words)

Example sentences (5)

Organisms can be further classified by ultimate source of their energy: photoautotrophs and photoheterotrophs obtain energy from light, whereas chemoautotrophs and chemoheterotrophs obtain energy from inorganic oxidation reactions.

Rutherford's speech in part, read: We might in these processes obtain very much more energy than the proton supplied, but on the average we could not expect to obtain energy in this way.

HAO cannot obtain energy from As(III) oxidation.

Many runners report that running becomes noticeably more difficult at that point. citation When glycogen runs low, the body must then obtain energy by burning stored fat, which does not burn as readily.

These animals metabolize sugar and oxygen to obtain energy for their cell-building processes, including secretion of the exoskeleton, with water and carbon dioxide as byproducts.