How to Use solder in a Sentence

solder

1 of 2 noun

• As soon as the flux disappears, touch the top of the joint with some solder.
  — Steve Willson, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2018
• On April 14, the pair went to an Army base to screen the movie — and to learn from real-life solders.
  — Greg Hanlon, Peoplemag, 28 Apr. 2023
• When that happens, the solder will wick into the joint.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 14 Jan. 2019
• Using a wire cutter, snip each lead just above the mound of solder.
  — Mitch Altman, Popular Mechanics, 2 Sep. 2020
• Rosin-core solder is the best stuff to buy for electronics.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2023
• The tool is used to melt solder that, when cooled, will join electrical contacts.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2022
• On section is intended to put the whiff of solder back in your nostrils.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Aug. 2021
• Lead can leach into the water from pipes, fixtures or solder in the plumbing.
  — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2022
• The review that led to the punishment was ordered after the death of Vanessa Guillen, a 20-year-old solder.
  — Harold Maass, TheWeek, 9 Dec. 2020
• In the past year, Brooks fixed chains in place with gold solder to craft goofy, endearing, googly-eyed brooches, rings, and necklaces.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2021
• The troops include both U.S. solders as well as South Korean troops.
  — Washington Post, 1 July 2019
• Tin the terminals on the back of the socket by heating them with the soldering iron and applying a bit of solder.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2021
• The solder inside of Nvidia's power adapter cable can be damaged if the cables are moved or bent too much.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2022
• And, of course, through older water systems, which can have lead pipes or use pipe solder that contains lead.
  — Molly Rauch, Good Housekeeping, 16 Feb. 2016
• Use solder tags or crimp-on ring connectors screwed into a terminal block and tie the thread onto the loops.
  — Andy Clark, Popular Science, 9 Jan. 2020
• The base of the cups and bottles can break off, exposing a solder dot which contains lead, according to the recall notice.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 28 Nov. 2022
• Even with overhaul, lead can still infiltrate homes with old brass fixtures or lead solder on pipes.
  — Dustin Renwick, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
• The chip is then flipped over so the solder lines up with corresponding pads on the chip’s package (or in our case onto another chip).
  — Roel Baets, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
• In the 1970’s, the FDA started lowering lead consumption by phasing out cans with lead solder.
  — Emily Washburn, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• More acidic water liberates more lead from pipes, solder, faucets and water heaters.
  — Aaron E. Carroll, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2016
• Seven reports have been made about the bottles' bases breaking off, revealing the solder dot.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 28 Nov. 2022
• So, the North Carolinian had a jeweler solder both of their wedding rings and create a necklace.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 1 Aug. 2019
• New York Gold beater’s block, repoussé hammer, solder pick, bezel pusher, burnishers, pliers, the torch and the kiln.
  — Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2019
• This approach is cheaper than solder, but less efficient at transferring heat away from the CPU cores.
  — Mark Walton, Ars Technica, 4 July 2017
• According to government figures provided in March, the armed forces were 1,000 troops short in terms of full-time squad leaders, solders and sailors.
  — Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 22 May 2018
• Flip-chip technology relies on balls of solder attached to those pads.
  — Roel Baets, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
• Girls from San Diego to Chicago have put on helmets and safety goggles and learned how to mix concrete, solder pipes together and rewire lamps.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
• The bottom base of the products can become detached, exposing a solder dot that contains lead, according to the CPSC.
  — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2022
• In the aftermath, Falcon 7Xs were grounded around the world until officials were able to trace the source of the problem: a bad solder joint that caused a control unit to transmit erroneous signals.
  — Jeff Wise, Popular Mechanics, 18 Mar. 2019
• The latter stacks smaller chips on top of larger ones using what’s called hybrid bonding, which links copper pads on each chip directly without solder.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Dec. 2023

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solder

2 of 2 verb

• Wires are soldered onto the circuit board.
• Cut the relief valve tube to length and solder a male adapter to one end.
  — Steve Willson, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2018
• With all the switches soldered on, it’s time to assemble the case.
  — Jon Porter, The Verge, 21 June 2019
• One of the easiest is to find a buddy that already knows how to solder.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2023
• Other pipes are made of clay or iron but may have lead soldering between the joints.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
• The impression is that the Chinese are soldering all this somewhere in the garage.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• To install these unions, simply clean all the tubing ends and fittings as before, add some flux and solder the parts.
  — Steve Willson, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2018
• In a series of tests, the new robot could jump up to 20 times its body length, climb walls, solder a circuit board and escape from a mock prison.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2023
• The final board is not complex and designed as a double sided board which is easy to solder.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2024
• The sheet was cut into three parts, which were soldered together, hammered, and rolled thin again.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 28 Jan. 2020
• It's been banned from use in paint, gasoline and food cans for decades, and it's no longer used in plumbing materials and solder for pipes.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2018
• The pebbled leather comes from a tannery just outside of Düsseldorf; the chain straps are hand-soldered in the Black Forest; and the packaging is made in Berlin.
  — Emily Farra, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2017
• De Bastiani, De Wolf and colleagues soldered a metal wire on each side of the tandom cells to extend the electrode contacts.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Feb. 2023
• The team made a video that shows the heat applied by a soldering tip to a sample spreading and dissipating at 100 frames per second.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019
• Layers of silver, gold, copper, and a sheet of silver/gold alloy were soldered together in a thin sheet.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 28 Jan. 2020
• The value of the ring — the engagement ring and wedding ring were soldered together to make a single ring — was estimated at $2,000 at the time of purchase.
  — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2017
• Running an iron hot makes things easier to solder, but also runs the risk of melting components.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2023
• His grandmother—who spent years working in the aerospace industry—showed him how to solder joints and make harnesses.
  — Liz Ohanesian, Los Angeles Magazine, 13 Apr. 2018
• Tiffany-style lamps are made by crimping narrow pieces of copper foil around the edges of the glass pieces, then soldering over the copper on adjoining pieces so the bead of copper holds them together.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
• According to the teardown, Apple effectively folded the X’s board in half and soldered the two sides together.
  — Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2017
• If broken into section, pads are provided so that headers can be soldered in to plug one board behind the other, making a more compact form suited to a desk clock.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2024
• His father, a land surveyor, taught him how to repair electronics by soldering the radios.
  — Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 28 Oct. 2019
• Every so often, usually when things are just starting to look up, the writers throw in a major monkey wrench to up the stakes, with each hurdle helping to solder the would-be couple’s affection.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2017
• Meanwhile, master silversmith Steve Leicht cuts and solders the base together, and baths it in acid to clean the silver for polishing and final assembly.
  — CBS News, 2 Feb. 2020
• The winged woman is crafted in a vintage steel mold, with the atom soldered together from six pieces then affixed to the statuette, plated in four alloys including copper, nickel, silver and 24-carat gold.
  — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2023
• Principato, too, recalls the trial and error of that workshop and the difficulty in learning how to solder wires and components on circuit boards.
  — Kevin Simpson, The Denver Post, 9 June 2017
• On the bright side, this is not an attack that can be perpetrated remotely from a hacker's basement – the attacker needs to have physical access to the Echo, in order to solder an SD card reader to the device.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2017
• The program, started in 2013, shows future workers how to work in clean labs, build complex circuits on thin silicone discs and how to solder those components into circuit boards and electronics.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 14 Apr. 2022
• Attendees will have the opportunity to solder circuits, construct robotic models of human hands, and get free 3-D model scans of themselves.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• His father worked in landscaping; his mother soldered computer chips.
  — Steve Miletich, The Seattle Times, 9 July 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024