Sentence examples for electric doorbell from inspiring English sources
Mr. Cowan believes he was the first to invent an electric doorbell, he also invented the world's first flashlight.
But I don't think we ever had what Honor Tracy found in large Irish houses, where a broken electric doorbell was often replaced by a recycled trumpet.
Abstract ideas, too, have identifying characteristics: fate enters to a stuttering rhythm, and the sound of an electric doorbell quickly becomes a portent of some new hindrance or horror, an annunciation of murder or the arrival of the law.
When a knock came — the doorbell was electric, she reminded herself — she had an absurd apprehension that her mother had somehow, in record-shattering time, finagled her way over here from the center, with some cabbie or unwitting do-gooder who'd found her in bedclothes on the street, waving her bingo card.
Transformers are employed for widely varying purposes; e.g., to reduce the voltage of conventional power circuits to operate low-voltage devices, such as doorbells and toy electric trains, and to raise the voltage from electric generators so that electric power can be transmitted over long distances.
Talk story about what's being done on the problem of interference on TV screens, and the causes of interference; vehicular traffic, diathermy machines, doorbells, telephone bells; electric motors, such as those used in pumps; refrigerators going on & off, violent electric storms, and landlords who are opposed to exposed antenna.
By Rex Lardner and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, July 3 , 1948P. 15 Talk story about what's being done on the problem of interference on TV screens, and the causes of interference; vehicular traffic, diathermy machines, doorbells, telephone bells; electric motors, such as those used in pumps; refrigerators going on & off, violent electric storms, and landlords who are opposed to exposed antenna.
Finally, the doorbell rang.
Suddenly, the doorbell rang.
