Case exclaimed, darting through the doorway andswitching on the lights.
He leaped to Carole's phone, switching on sound and screen with one swipe of his thumb.
But the intellectual exercises he performed at lightening speed, cranial neuro-syn- apses switching for all they were worth, did not permit Pierre the luxury of a respite of calm.
As Callomb's eyes swept the almost deserted streets, so silent that the strident switching of a freight train could be heard down at the edge of town, he shook his head.
Here she waited for John, one hand twisted in the gray's mane, and with the other switching at the tall grass with her riding-whip.
In the shivering light, which gave to the park an effect like a great vaulted hall, the throng swarmed, with a gentle murmur of dresses switching the turf, and with a steady hum of voices.
Cairn led the way into the library, switching on the reading-lamp upon the large table.
Into the room ran his father, switching on the light as he did so.
And, so saying, impudent Jack that he was, continued his way, whistling louder, and switching off more carnation tops than before.
Switching his cane at the weed tops with strokes which he strove to make casual, he stopped to watch them, a half smile of approbation on his face.
Mama," she said, coming out of the circle of light and switching on the ceiling bulbs, "you stayed down so late.
For the larger sizes of branch exchange switchboards, the switching apparatus is practically the same as that of ordinary manual switchboards wherein the connections are made between the various lines by means of pairs of cords and plugs.
A general view of the main switchingroom in the Grant Avenue office of the Home Telephone Company of San Francisco is given in Fig.
Therefore, the cost of such switching is less than for true long-distance calls and it can be learned by careful auditing just when traffic between points becomes great enough to warrant switching them in this way.
This is not because the automatic system cannot readily perform the switching duties, but the private branch-exchange operator has other duties than the mere building up and taking down of connections.
Freedom from failure by busy lines and failure to answer are service-qualities independent of the kind of switching apparatus.
The central-office apparatus is designed throughout upon the principle of switchingby means of power-driven switches which are under the control of the signal transmitters of the calling subscriber's station.
The six major switches of the connecting division are as follows: The Primary Connector:--The function of this switch is to connect the conductors of the calling line with the switching devices of the connective division.
In the Lorimer system the switches are all power-driven and the impulses under the control of the subscriber's instrument merely serve to control the application of this power to the variousswitching mechanisms.
The dam once down, she poured forth a catalogue of wrongs that seemed endless, switching off from one dialect to another and at intervals inserting, apropos apparently of nothing, the few words of German she had picked up.
I could very plainly see his claws coming in and out of their sheaths, and what with that, and the switching tail, and the sense of impotence I could not take my eyes off him.
So promptly loyal has Cleveland proven himself to be that it is to be believed that should the companies desire it, they could have the Executive Mansion for a round house and the White House grounds for switching purposes.
The directors of the union immediately held a conference with the delegates the result of which was an order to strike if the company insisted on them switching the Pullman cars.
A herd of varicolored cows and steers were foraging listlessly orswitching tails in what remained of the oat field.
The mules came, switching their tails and bobbing their heads, and the rising excitement that mounted in Joe kept him from feeling any resentment toward them.
Then more steam was raised after a while, and after this was done all shouted, "Let us have another switching before we go.
Then one of the fellows said, "Paulus, let me give you a switching with the birch twigs.
The lion sprang and missed his mark; he fell short, with only his head over the edge of the rock, and the zebra galloped away, switching his tail in the air.
The lion now shook his mane, gave another angry roar; and by the glistening of his eyes, and the impatient switching of his tail, it was evident that he would soon become the attacking party.
My assistant had remained at the points in order that he might superintend the switching off of the train.
With a continual growl he paced swiftly up and down the side of the room which was farthest from my refuge, his whiskers bristling angrily, and his tail switching and lashing.
They had to eat dinner and do an hour's switching in twenty minutes.
Switching on his torch Dennis read: "We are crossing our own lines now.
With the switching off of the searchlights the enemy barrage had ceased, and the deafening crash of the German shells was succeeded by a weird silence.
The lights in the cave still burned brightly, for Tom had refrained from switching them off for the obvious reason that they made it easy to keep an eye on the prisoners.
He had pressed a button in the floor, switching off the lights.
The line, although of rawhide, was switching on the surface of the rapid current; it seemed easy enough to recover it and make a new fastening.
Operating between the various steel plants and connecting them up with the main lines, there are several switching roads, such as the Union Railroad and the McKeesport and Monongahela Connecting Lines.
Thus was lost the chance to close down these strategic switching lines and with them, in all likelihood, several big mills in the most vital district in the entire steel industry.
He went quickly into his bedroom, switching on the light, to get a glass of water.
Dan Horsey sat on the dresser of my kitchen, switching his boot with a riding-whip, and looking at Susan with an extremely melancholy expression of countenance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "switching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
