Sentence examples similar to socket- from inspiring English sources

"We put our phones and iPads upstairs and then I went round and turned absolutely everything off at the socket, apart from the fridge-freezer and the smart energy monitor.

Yet we've long run out of descriptors for the light-socket hairdo made famous by wretched, slimy, reptilian boxing promoter Don King.

The Manchester United midfielder Darren Fletcher (ankle and eye socket) and West Bromwich Albion's Graham Dorrans (ankle) have pulled out, while there are doubts over Gary Caldwell.

Of Kimberley who placed her licked finger on a lightbulb socket with the result that "bingo balls halted and the whole hall gasped/ in silence".

We put our phones and iPads upstairs and then I went round and turned absolutely everything off at the socket, apart from the fridge-freezer and the smart monitor.

No, I can't move it, I need to be near that socket, so if you wouldn't mind keeping your voices down if you have to sit here?

Even as one group of nVidia engineers struggles to perfect these powerhouse chips, which are capable of making the virtual world look startlingly real, another group worries about the plumbing.Like microprocessors for desktop PCs, graphics chips tend to have access to all the power they want, courtesy of an electricity socket on the wall.

Theresa Spence, a Cree chief from a troubled reserve in northern Ontario, has taken up residence in a tepee near the parliament buildings in Ottawa, and has refused solid food since December 11th.In this section Time we stopped meeting like this Wrong numbers From tap to socket Sparks in the dark ReprintsThe spark for the protests was the government's omnibus budget bill, approved last month.

By his senior year he had been granted his first patent, for a socket interface that used a series of bladders to compensate for the wide variation in the shapes of different people's residual limbs.

In his London office Simon Daniel, founder of Moixa, a technology company, charges his laptop from a prototype souped-up USB socket.

Wireless technology is akin to the electrical grid, which was originally intended for a particular use, the light bulb, but whose "killer application" turned out to be the power socket that allowed a multitude of new and unforeseen devices to draw energy from it.