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

A 20-minute call to the switchboard led to a report back from the NHS trust's communications manager to Operation Grange, the British investigation into the disappearance.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2024

I ask, glancing back at my switchboard where lights are still continuing to flicker—calls I am missing, a job I am still supposed to be doing.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse