switch
Example Sentences
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Power plants there sometimes switch to oil during periods of extreme cold when natural-gas supplies or electricity imports are constrained.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
It holds heat, keeps its nerve, and moves easily from stovetop to oven to broiler and back again without asking you to switch vessels or overthink it.
From Salon • Apr. 21, 2026
He has benefitted from the switch at Surrey, where he is thought to have rediscovered a natural tempo to his batting.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
Cancer cells can switch to alternative metabolic pathways to survive.
From Science Daily • Apr. 20, 2026
My wet clothes clung to my goose-bumped skin, and I leaned over and flipped the switch to light the gas fireplace.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
Vocabulary lists containing switch
Engineering - Introductory
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Electricity and Magnetism - Introductory
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Physics - Introductory
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