How to Use hardwired in a Sentence

hardwired

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• But whatever may have triggered her, a vision as distinct, strong, and enduring as hers must be hardwired.
  — Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
• The human brain seems hardwired to make sense of the world through stories.
  — Ben Rogers, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2023
• Those hardwired phones are now becoming relics of the past.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 12 Oct. 2023
• Some of the lights were hardwired and therefore needed an electrician.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 June 2024
• Light buzzing can happen with plug-in and hardwired fixtures, so your lamp or chandelier could be the culprit.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 26 July 2023
• For example, fawns and calves are able to walk within hours of birth because the behavior is hardwired.
  — Roberta McLain, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2023
• This is something that’s built in, hardwired, this vile and violentstreak that human beings have.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Sep. 2024
• Our brains are hardwired to think and communicate in stories.
  — Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
• This is enough to cover 5,000 square feet and all three nodes, or points, feature ethernet ports for a hardwired connection.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 2 Dec. 2019
• The instinct to complain about the spectacle of the event outpacing its utility is hardwired.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 17 July 2023
• The hardwired motion sensor light has two adjustable heads that illuminate around 30 feet of space in a warm yellow hue.
  — Averi Baudler, Peoplemag, 20 May 2024
• To prevent tampering, the election equipment is hardwired to a closed network.
  — The Arizona Republic, 24 Jan. 2024
• The Battery Doorbell Plus can also be hardwired to trickle charge the battery and to work with your existing indoor doorbell chime.
  — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 8 Mar. 2023
• The law also mandated that new apartment buildings have hardwired detectors and alarms built in.
  — Alex Nitkin, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
• Children and adults are hardwired to relax and recharge when given the opportunity.
  — Brianna Kamienski, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
• Many times faster than current cell service, 5G could outstrip even the fastest home broadband currently available from hardwired providers.
  — Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle, 22 May 2018
• Now every long-haul driver must have a logging device, which is usually hardwired to their truck’s engine.
  — Emily Gogolak, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• Since this towel warmer is designed to be mounted on a wall and hardwired, this device will require installation.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Feb. 2023
• Books were individually wrapped in sandwich bags on their shelves; the doors were metallic; a hardwired DSL modem was installed in a Faraday cage in the foyer, away from the living space.
  — Evan Malmgren, Harper's Magazine, 21 Aug. 2024
• One of his earliest memories is of helping his father build a system of sensors and hardwired circuits for automating the flow of grain through a series of bins that dry and store the harvest.
  — Ariel Bleicher, IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2013
• Thankfully, our brains are hardwired to recognize edges.
  — Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2024
• The theory is that children are hardwired to connect with others and that children who feel connected are less likely to misbehave.
  — Kimanzi Constable, Parents, 1 Feb. 2024
• Keep in Mind This sconce requires hardwired installation.
  — Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Aug. 2023
• Though Red 3, like most artificial colorants, has no functional purpose, our brains are hardwired to prefer red foods.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 9 Feb. 2024
• The film compares the natural world’s rhythms and dramas with Heathcliff and Cathy’s urges for each other; as hardwired as animals and plants are to survive, so too are they compelled to push one another away and then pull them back.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
• Some electric models have to be hardwired or mounted on a wall or ceiling, which needs professional expertise.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 June 2024
• The company’s entire line of hardwired smart switches/control panels is also 10 percent off.
  — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 24 Nov. 2023
• My tardiness stemmed from kidly shame, that universally hardwired capacity to negate anything if enough people your size tease you about it for long enough.
  — Jeb Lund, Esquire, 14 May 2017
• Some external hardwired alarm sirens can reach a very uncomfortable 120 decibels.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Feb. 2023
• Humans find visual solace in patterns, after all: our brains are hardwired to detect them, especially those that mimic ones found in nature.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 8 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024