Sentence examples for touched the wire from inspiring English sources

My son's big toe touched the wire.

Van Dam gingerly touched the wire, and a piston came flying out.

The staples had cut through the rubber coating on the cord and touched the wire, causing a spark, he said.

Can it be right that the falsity of "She touched the wire" entails the truth of "If she touched the wire she got a shock"?

On Wednesday, another jobless young man in Sidi Bouzid climbed an electricity pole, shouted "no for misery, no for unemployment", then touched the wires and electrocuted himself.

Touching the wire varied the frequency.

He may go for a long period without touching the wire, then make a crossing of several hundred feet.

When the contact was broken, a charge could be demonstrated by touching the wire with the hand and receiving a shock.

A simple example of a passive transducer is a device containing a length of wire and a moving contact touching the wire.

My favourite piece was a wire figure of a reclining woman, along which you had to pass a metal loop without touching the wire.

However, due to the small size of the wire, the thermocouple could not touch the wire.