How to Use switchboard in a Sentence

switchboard

noun

• She used to work as a switchboard operator.
• Klekamp and his brothers worked at the school's switchboard and cleaned the gym and the physics lab.
  — Leyla Shokoohe, The Enquirer, 27 Nov. 2022
• At 16, his first full-time job was on the station's switchboard.
  — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2018
• There’s a couple of pumps involved, a switchboard, the whole deal.
  — Nancy Ngo, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2017
• Strowger stomped down to the local exchange, complained and looked at the switchboard.
  — Darryl Levings, kansascity, 2 June 2018
• The Moog, which looked a telephone switchboard, was heavy but mobile.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
• Next to the switchboard was an old photo of a young woman working it.
  — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 16 June 2018
• Things get pretty hairy around the Zoo switchboard where monkey business is the order of the day...
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2022
• So, at precisely 7 p.m., the switchboard would light up.
  — Author: Geoff Kennedy, Alaska Dispatch News, 1 Sep. 2017
• According to Politico, the prankster called the White House switchboard and was told the president could not be reached.
  — Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 29 June 2018
• When a Topeka outfit was caught with infringing equipment, the switchboard was burned in the street to make a point.
  — Darryl Levings, kansascity, 2 June 2018
• The new plant at 7200 Harris Legacy Drive would make low-voltage switchboards and switchgear.
  — Tribune News Service, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2023
• In the past, the squadron’s job was like that of a fancy telephone switchboard operator.
  — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
• The U.S. Senate has at times been getting 1.5 million phone calls per day, the busiest in the history of the Capitol switchboard.
  — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 28 July 2017
• This number will direct you to the Capitol switchboard.
  — refinery29.com, 19 June 2018
• Early on in the blockade, the government had cut all phone lines to the switchboard, isolating the Mille Collines from the outside world.
  — New York Times, 2 Mar. 2021
• The controllers ran the gamut this year from puppets to switchboards to an actual coffin.
  — Julie Muncy, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2018
• The headphone jack traces its history to over 100 years ago, when it was used in telephone switchboards.
  — The Tylt, cleveland.com, 3 Aug. 2017
• The next night, the White House switchboard left Hickman another voice mail seeking to connect him to Trump.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
• San Diego’s hello girls, or about 140 of them, left their switchboards yesterday as a protest against the scale of wages paid by the company.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 June 2018
• Philip Rivers has gotten more phone calls than the Pentagon switchboard.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2022
• Had this been a busier day, the company no doubt would have had thousands of irate customers clogging its switchboard.
  — David Lazarus, WIRED, 24 Feb. 1999
• The News switchboard was a Christmas tree of lights, and another operator had to be called to help handle the calls.
  — Dallas News, 6 June 2019
• Her own experience at Keeneland dates to her high school days, and seasonal stints on the switchboard.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 3 July 2020
• However, those who don't have his number must go through the switchboard -- and Kelly -- and have had a much a more difficult time.
  — Kevin Liptak, CNN, 1 Sep. 2017
• The Vast of Night team took the same obsessive approach toward more central aspects of the film, like the radio station and switchboard, too.
  — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, 30 May 2020
• The police station, sheriff's office and fire department as well as the switchboard at The News were swamped with telephone calls.
  — Dallas News, 6 June 2019
• When the war ended, many remained in France or were sent to Germany to continue working phone switchboards through the Treaty of Versailles.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2018
• Back in those days, when April 1 rolled around, the switchboard operators at the Los Angeles Zoo were inundated with calls.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2024
• His father was a switchboard installer for the local phone company; his mother oversaw the household.
  — Bruce Weber, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024