Sentence examples for in a switchboard from inspiring English sources

The company suspects the rodent may have caused a short-circuit in a switchboard, triggering the power cut.

Tepco officials said a rat had damaged the electrics, causing a short circuit in a switchboard and triggering the power cut.

The company said a rat had damaged the electrics, causing a short circuit in a switchboard and triggering the power cut.

Because of difficulties in renting a switchboard from the phone company -- it insisted that he have 100 customers first -- Rabbi Weinstein ran his service out of his home in Bellmore, starting with two push-button phones.

Learning in such a switchboard consists of strengthening and weakening the connections between input relays and output units.

Marsha Temlock, a retired family counselor in Westport, Conn., said her initial reaction to the divorce announcement of one of her two sons five years ago was, "How could you divorce this wonderful girl?" For months she fielded calls from the son and the daughter-in-law like a "switchboard operator," she said, letting their divorce monopolize her life.

Agness "Aggie" Underwood, got into the newspaper business by accident when she took a temporary job with the Los Angeles Record in 1926 as a switchboard operator in order to buy herself a new pair of stockings.

Having grown up making prank calls, Martin found that being seated in front of a switchboard "was thrilling".

Hein started his career in South Africa as a switchboard operator, but the rapidly growing technology sector soon inspired him to enter the IT industry where he managed teams of sighted individuals at companies like MWeb and Thawte Consulting.

So just as a phone call from one ex-African colony to another might have to go through a switchboard in Paris, travel in Africa was always circuitous.

"Ginni created Liberty Central more as an effort to provide a switchboard in the conservative movement," Armey told me.