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

“Dewey put it on the turntable and the switchboard lit up,” Martindale said in a 2010 interview with The Times.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2025

Kirschenbaum was a switchboard operator for the International Rescue Committee, the international humanitarian aid group, until her retirement in 2004.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2024

And then we started at the switchboard, waiting, my hands clammy and shaking.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse