Sentence examples for switched themselves from inspiring English sources

"They switched themselves off immediately," he said in televised remarks.

Nobody appeared overly concerned, however, as one set of auxiliary floodlights installed for the night switched themselves off within 15 minutes of kick-off.

As you walk through the corridors of the hotels, the lights switch themselves on and off.

The market for "smart" appliances, which save energy by switching themselves off when not needed, is almost doubling every year.Regulations impose costs as well as save them.

Of course, having street lights that automatically switch themselves off when the street is empty further reduces costs and CO2 emissions.

The problem is that nuclear reactors, and even gas- and coal-fired generators, can't switch themselves on and off on a dime.

Large-scale batteries to store energy and devices that switch themselves off are likely to be key technologies for keeping the UK's lights on while shutting down old coal and nuclear plants, an influential committee of MPs has said.

The reputation of the Prius, Toyota's market-leading hybrid, suffered a further blow yesterday after a lawsuit was filed in the US claiming that the car's headlights switch themselves off at "random intervals".

BSkyB, a British satellite-television and telecoms operator, was one of the first companies to go carbon-neutral by reducing its emissions as much as possible (by programming its set-top boxes to switch themselves to standby when not in use, for example), and offsetting the rest.

This could be used to send signals between street or motorway lights, so that they only switch themselves on when people or cars are approaching.

When the sequence of stay and switch trials is known, subjects can trigger the switching themselves and thus attend to self-generated thoughts (cf. Burgess, 2000; Shallice and Burgess, 1991).