fuse box
Example Sentences
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Searching for the source of a lighting failure he opened a fuse box: “It looked like an exploded firecracker.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
The fuse box was burnt out and clothes dried on wire stretched across the stairwell.
From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025
You should also disconnect all electrical appliances or turn off electric circuits at the fuse box or circuit breaker panel.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2022
Astrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints, said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.
From BBC • Jan. 2, 2021
Hand over hand she moved along the walls, stopping at each step to explore the surface, searching for the door to the fuse box.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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