socket
Example Sentences
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Three fatal fires over the weekend were accidental and connected to an overload of sockets and electrical issues, the fire service has said.
From BBC
The wind practically blows my eyes out of their sockets.
From Literature
In the smooth socket where the head had just been was another button.
From Literature
“Plug sockets used to blow because the water had gotten into them.”
From BBC
The skull has an enormous eye socket and a long sword-like snout that it used to eat fish and squid.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
