wire
Example Sentences
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His restraint suits a story in which machine-kind and humankind begin to feel shrink-wrapped together, the ghosts belabored by increasing social pressure, the humans jolted by high-voltage wires.
From Los Angeles Times
The wire had come loose, and the painting shuddered and then began to fall.
From Literature
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But when we finally got into the ward, Grandpa Dodzi was hooked up to tubes and wires, unmoving and unconscious.
From Literature
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But he seems to have learned of the bug by chance, when his gardener plunged a shovel through an underground wire.
From Los Angeles Times
Epstein replied: "I will wire your loan amount immediately".
From BBC
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