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Example sentences for "electric wire"

  • The conveyance of sound by means of an electric wire, has been practised through the instrumentality of the bell telegraph, used occasionally, though much less frequently than apparatus of a different kind.

  • Dundee threw back the rug, showing them the hole in the floor, out of which came a short length of electric wire, ending in two small metal plates.

  • Miles joined a piece of electric wire to the dining room bell wires, and pushed it down through the hole he had bored into the basement ceiling.

  • Later, Bell ventured to confide to Hubbard his wild dream of sending speech over an electric wire, but Hubbard laughed him to scorn.

  • To get a question asked and answered in five minutes by means of an electric wire, instead of in two hours by the slow trudging of a messenger boy--that is the method that best suits our passion for instantaneous service.

  • There was one of the odd-looking machines in each room, so it appears, and the two were connected by an electric wire.

  • This was the possibility of transmitting the human voice over an electric wire.

  • What had happened was clearly manifest; a sound had been sent distinctly over an electric wire.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "electric wire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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