Sentence examples for throw the switch from inspiring English sources

How to throw the switch?

Should you throw the switch?

Someone yelled, "Let's throw the switch," and they did.

He ordered me to write another letter, one that would tell readers about the person he knew me to be.

"It's time to throw the switch toward the playoffs," right wing Mike Knuble said.

They throw the switch, and it's like something from a 30s Frankenstein movie.

"The conductor is getting off to throw the switches by hand.

When a train must be rerouted -- a situation that occurs rather often, as on last Wednesday when a passenger fell ill on the northbound No. 6 at 86th Street -- a worker near the big lighted map at Grand Central pulls out several silver knobs, much like the knobs on an old cigarette machine, to throw the switches on the tracks.

They throw the switches.

Who threw the switch?

Engineers threw the switch to start up the LHC in September 2008 to global fanfare.