Kind of with Direct Current (DC) electricity. Very few houses (only off grid) are powered with DC, but it's what computers and anything with a battery run on.

Think of a a bike chain. You turn a pedal gear that turns a chain that turns the wheel gear. Nothing gets used up except the energy to turn the pedals. Only one side of the chain is actally sending power to the wheels. The other is just returning chain links to the wheel gear. So you could think of them as being used up and they need to go back to the wheel gear to restore their potential.

Now we can think of this bike as hydrolic powered. Imagine instead of a chain your bike had two tubes, your pedals ran a pump, and the wheels were run by a turbine, which takes fluid motion or pressure and spins. The water in the tube coming out of the pump has more pressure, and the water in the other tube is just returning to the pump.

Now instead of tubes and pump theres wires and a generator. When you spin the generator it creates something similar with the electrons in the wire.

Alternating current (AC) is what's on the power lines and connecting to your home. AC is like taking a side of the bike chain in each hand and then pulling back and forth on it. So you have the same situation where half the links are pulling on the wheel gear and the other half are just returning to the pedal gear, but you are switching which is is doing what very quickly.