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’m used to being a switchboard of sorts — as a journalist, inevitably, word travels to and through me.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025

Although the number was bogus, Paul encountered the court's genuine automated switchboard message - which the criminals had duplicated to make the scam more convincing.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2025

The only plan I can come up with is to do everything at once and hope that the teenagers at the Motel 6 switchboard can be trusted to serve as my answering machine.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich