Sentence examples for plug from inspiring English sources

For our energy makeover this week I was given a standby saver, which was useful; I plugged my television into it and it has a sensor that responds to a signal from the TV remote control, so I just use that instead of switching the plug off at the wall.

Taxes were hiked and public spending slashed as Brian Cowen's government sought to plug a widening black hole in Irish public finances.

We know that Atos Healthcare wants to pull the plug on its work to test whether benefits claimants are fit for work after its staff received death threats.

If that's OK, it's easy to see why consumers would think it equally fine to plug an e-cigarette into a smartphone charger.

Mitchell did slip in one masturbation gag – it's a Channel 4 show after all – but Shapps got to plug his commitment to build 150,000 new, affordable homes.

The Ramones stride on stage, plug in their guitars, and take off.

Mossad operatives were in northern Iraq training Kurdish fighters for the battles with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, until the Shah pulled the plug, ending support for the Kurdish rebellion with his 1975 Algiers agreement with Saddam.

Related: The Conservatives will plug the NHS funding gap | George Osborne Others lack even that patience.

One of the chancellor's political gifts is the self-knowledge to identify gaps in his own experience and to plug them with astute appointments.

This takes a small plug of flesh from the whale, without harming it.

1 01AM Slaves take over the top bar at the Scala for their afterparty, but the plug is pulled promptly at 1am.