Sentence examples for touching the wire from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

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, in one specimen, the nerve lay touching the wire after insertion.

You can receive a very annoying, though usually not fatal, shock while working on telephone wiring, especially if the phone rings or is dialed (in the case of a rotary dial/pulse phone) while you are touching the wires.

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"?