Sentence examples for cord rather than from inspiring English sources

Just as Liverpool allowed Steven Gerrard to play out his career at another club, Chelsea are prepared to cut the cord rather than absorb him into a coaching role.

Apple's third-generation Shuffle, which will retail for $79.00, has most of its buttons built into the headphone and cord, rather than on the unit itself.

The technique sheds light (literally) on how transplanted tissue interacts with the nervous system only the tadpoles whose transplanted eyes connected to their spinal cord, rather than their gut, seemed to be able to see.

It made sense to buy better and more expensive cord rather than what the profit-motive had all the OEM's including in their package offerings.

It is known from experiments conducted on the spiny dogfish that its spinal cord, rather than its brain, coordinates swimming, so spiny dogfish can continue to swim while sleeping, and this also may be the case in larger shark species.

Rather than require the earphone jack to be separate from the connecting cord, you simply plug the earphone into the opposite end of the Navigate, and it's as if there's just one seamless cord, rather than having a jumble, twisting one another.

More people, she added, are "swapping cable cords, rather than cutting them".

Its hardware was proprietary: the company had its own Mac factory and favored unique cables, disk drives, and power cords, rather than standardized ones.

The best dog trainers use scent distracters, like hiding samples in soda cans or coffee cups, as well as using old samples of, say, detonation cords, rather than factory-fresh ones.

However, in the monoplacophorans, the pedal nerve cords are not parallel but arranged in a broad oval, fused posteriorly and have cross-connections to the lateral nerve cords rather than to each other.

Of course, nimbler and more progressive airlines like Ryanair and Singapore are able to change with the times, and are outfitting their planes with plugs and USB cords rather than weak screens playing bad copies of bad movies.