switchboard

Example Sentences

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Educated by the Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy, she worked filing letters and on a switchboard.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Heating in her home is not turned on during the daytime, she said, showing AFP the system's switchboard mounted above her stove displaying "off".

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

“I went to Brown, so I still knew the switchboard number by heart,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2024

She soon went to work for the General Post Office, which ran Britain’s telephone system, and was trained as a switchboard operator.

From Seattle Times • May 30, 2024

That’s what I had said to Luc, the day I passed my final test in France, the day I met him when he appeared from behind the switchboard.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse