wall socket
Example Sentences
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She strongly recommends electronics are switched off at the wall socket every night before the last person in the house goes to bed.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
"Food is a tougher problem than electricity; few people care where the electrons in our wall socket originate, but many people care a lot about where their food comes from," Davis said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2023
At home, the cooler is easily plugged into a wall socket.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
Unplug means to literally tug an electric plug from a wall socket, but now, it also has a more metaphorical meaning, as in to disconnect from social media, he said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2019
I plugged it back into the wall socket and waited for the game to boot up.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
