Collocations for "energy"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "energy" in context.
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energy
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [coal, solar, wind, nuclear] energy
- [renewable, sustainable] energy
- [kinetic, potential, wasted] energy
- have low energy (today)
- [used up, consumed] all [his, its] energy
- [burn, work] off (their) energy
- don't waste your energy [trying, thinking, doing]
- don't waste your energy on him
- spend energy [worrying, thinking, working]
- how do you (always) have so much energy?
- am all out of energy (today, right now)
- wish I had more energy
- threw all his energy into the [job, project]
- energy sources
- cut back on energy consumption
- energy [conservation, efficiency]
- save on energy costs
- boost your energy level
- an energy-saving [bulb]
- a low-energy [lamp, light, bulb]
- an energy drink
- eat an energy bar
'energy' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
alternative
- beam
- between
- bill
- body
- build
- burn
- channel
- clean
- committee
- consume
- consumption
- conventional
- crunch
- dash
- decline
- deplete
- depletion
- devote
- drain
- drink
- dwindle
- effect
- effectively
- efficient
- electrical
- endless
- enormous
- enthusiasm
- fail
- flag
- form
- full
- generation
- hardly
- harness
- hindrance
- hopeless
- independence
- investment
- just
- laptop
- light
- lighting
- limit
- low on
- motion
- muster
- needless
- nervous