wall socket
Example Sentences
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"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
“You know how you go to a different country, they have a different kind of wall socket plug?” he said.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 4, 2022
The report said that babies' cots were positioned close together, one next to an electric wall socket used for devices including an oil-filled radiator.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 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
