hit the switch
Example Sentences
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"Did the switch play some role? It might have been that the front of the train hit the switch, and it started fish-tailing, and that flipped the back part of the train," Clarke said.
From Fox News • Sep. 27, 2021
“Did the switch play some role? It might have been that the front of the train hit the switch and it started fish-tailing and that flipped the back part of the train,” Clarke said.
From Washington Times • Sep. 27, 2021
He found the panel on the wall where the bulb was installed and hit the switch, flinching for an instant as it bathed the veranda in a warm yellow glow.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2017
They had gone to a commercial break, but someone forgot to hit the switch.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2012
If—and only if—two incoming phone-calls happened to hit the switch within a hundredth of a second, then a small patch of data would be garbled by the flaw.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce
