switchboard

Example Sentences

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Educated by the Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy, she worked filing letters and on a switchboard.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 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

Although the number was bogus, Paul encountered the court's genuine automated switchboard message - which the criminals had duplicated to make the scam more convincing.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2025

“I went to Brown, so I still knew the switchboard number by heart,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2024

“You missed the vidcall this morning. Miss Wild told me; it came through the switchboard exactly at nine.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick