Sentence examples for switchboards to from inspiring English sources

But finding enough space for four new electrical switchboards, to replace the four destroyed by the storm, has been complicated.

Tens of thousands of desperate young people, many with university degrees, jammed switchboards to apply before the scheme had even been officially launched.

The business machines of the time used plugboards (something like telephone switchboards) to route data manually, and Aiken chose not to use them for the specification of instructions.

Later, the development of headset sound systems which allowed the stage manager to remotely communicate with the light-board operators allowed portable resistance switchboards to be placed in the cellar or other places with no view of the stage.

This study assesses how often local US hospitals provide smoking cessation information in the following two ways: via hospital Web sites; and via routing incoming phone calls to their hospital switchboards to an in-house smoking cessation clinic.

As it turned out, a Queens bartender confessed to making the call that somehow got through the Coliseum switchboard to the visiting coach's office.

As a little girl, Caroline had the advantage of being able to ask the bloodhounds on the White House switchboard to get Santa on the line.

In March 1928, Christine, a single mother living in Los Angeles, returns home from her shift supervising a busy switchboard to find that her young son, Walter Gattlin Griffithh), is missing.

Last month, before the staffing company in Menlo Park, Calif., closed for the Thanksgiving weekend, employees tried to reprogram the switchboard to broadcast a holiday greeting.

After all, she'd put me in a hell of a spot, deliberately tying up the switchboard to block any incoming calls from girls who wanted to cook my dinner and spend the night.

A little more than a week after congressional Republicans tried to dismantle the Office of Congressional Ethics they relented only after the public swamped the switchboard to such a degree that even Donald Trump joined the criticism the Party is back with a related gambit.