Sentence examples for wrong socket from inspiring English sources

"Did I get the wrong socket?

A computer vendor's help line may get calls from hundreds of users who plug the mouse into the wrong socket; only one of these cases need be stored.

The mechanics had attached two control rods into the wrong sockets — a problem caused more by sloppy design than by sloppy mechanical work.

One is loyal and tender but has not yet disclosed his love…" This scene — with its backdrop of a pack of silly ladies who lunch, having their feet read by a charlatan, to frame the terrifying idea that a mother might say "Thank God" after being told about the death of her child — plugs all your emotions into the wrong sockets; it's the blackest comedy I know.

Your dad tried to get him a job at his place but he did something so wrong with a socket wrench during orientation that they had to send him home.

Perhaps partly for that reason, only 78% of Bolivian homes were hooked up in 2009, versus 86% in Peru and over 90% in most of the region.In this section Time we stopped meeting like this Wrong numbers From tap to socket Sparks in the dark ReprintsProponents of nationalisation point to what they say are recent improvements in the water industry.

Week by week, they are revising down their forecasts for economic growth in 2013, now at about 3%.In this section Time we stopped meeting like this Wrong numbers From tap to socket Sparks in the dark ReprintsThe government's response to the bad news stoked fears that Brazil may be in for a long spell of high inflation and low growth.

Theresa Spence, a Cree chief from a troubled reserve in northern Ontario, has taken up residence in a tepee near the parliament buildings in Ottawa, and has refused solid food since December 11th.In this section Time we stopped meeting like this Wrong numbers From tap to socket Sparks in the dark ReprintsThe spark for the protests was the government's omnibus budget bill, approved last month.

It has yet to pay Repsol a penny of the $10.5 billion it is claiming in compensation.In this section Time we stopped meeting like this Wrong numbers From tap to socket Sparks in the dark ReprintsThe nationalisation has not yet had the effect the government wanted.

There had been some minor problems such as the power socket being in the wrong place so that it was too far from the bed.

And it's amazing that they can get the embossed hologram right, but spell "socket" and other things wrong.