switchboard

Example Sentences

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Demand for switchboard operators brought hundreds of thousands of women into corporate offices, reshaping the clerical workforce.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Heating in her home is not turned on during the daytime, she said, showing AFP the system's switchboard mounted above her stove displaying "off".

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

“Dewey put it on the turntable and the switchboard lit up,” Martindale said in a 2010 interview with The Times.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2025

The switchboard at the Lime Grove studios was jammed with viewers ringing in to find out more, and it gave the BBC the nudge to set up the Natural History Unit in Bristol in 1957.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2024

A week after our arrival in Souilly, I walked into the switchboard room and there she was, Mae, not finishing her work as she should have been, but still firmly planted in her chair.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse