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How to use charger in a sentence

33 example sentences · noun

Charger means a device that charges or recharges. Example: “Put the batteries in the charger overnight so we can use them tomorrow.”

Examples of charger by meaning

nounA device that charges or recharges.

  • Put the batteries in the charger overnight so we can use them tomorrow.
  • GWR plans to use it on the Greenford branch in west London, making use of a fast charger at West Ealing that will charge the batteries in just three and a half minutes.2024 March 6, “Network News: GWR '230' sets UK battery record”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 13

nounOne who charges.

  • The speed of the chargers slackened.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 135
  • Rather, he is an aesthete—a tweaker, not a charger.2018, Robert J. Stoller, Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred

nounA large horse trained for battle and used by the cavalry.

  • The knight rode a white charger.
  • My centuria slept in one of the stables, under the stone mangers where the names of the cavalry chargers were still inscribed.1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC

nounA large decorative plate, sometimes used under dinner plates or other savoury-dish vessels in a multi-course meal.

  • The fancy restaurant used a white porcelain charger when serving.

nounA rectal concealment container for prohibited material such as money, drugs and tools.

  • This is a charger.2004, Brian Helgeland, 01:44:10 from the start, in Man on Fire

nounSynonym of hard charger (“person with a good work ethic”).

  • Miller had a new executive officer, a real charger, as they're known in the trade, who was looking into all aspects of the operation up there.1980, Bill Gulley, Mary Ellen Reese, Breaking Cover, page 161

More sentences with charger

  • Many of the low-cost accessories (cords, chargers, etc) sold in the dollar store had spotty quality.From the entry spotty
  • My battery died and my charger was at home.From the entry die
  • The announcement implied that somebody needed a spare Toshiba charger.From the entry announcement
  • Apple, which uses its own design for its charger cables, is mithering about the change.6 February 2020, “The parable of the plug”, in The Economist. From the entry mither
  • The boy tells her she will find iPhone chargers if she takes five steps back.2020 January 29, Dan Brooks, “Comedy Written for the Machines”, in New York Times Magazine, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2020. From the entry kabuki
  • The battery is dying, and Natalia's iPhone charger doesn't fit my mastodon of a phone anyway.2017, Nina Laurin, Girl Last Seen. From the entry mastodon
  • Charging modifies the first attack of the charger, and the first attack of the chargee.2011, Jesse Spears, The Science of Magic, page 38. From the entry chargee
  • He owned over a dozen, their chargers overwhelming every power point in his Lavington home.2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower. From the entry power point
  • She hooked the truck battery up to the trickle charger and left it.1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry trickle charger
  • WILKINSON SWORD cordless electric shrub-trimmer, 12″ double-edged blades, complete with battery charger, £12.1983 March 4, “Gardening”, in Huddersfield Daily Examiner, number 39,612, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18. From the entry shrub-trimmer
  • This fast charger is essentially a battery installed at the lineside which is trickle-charged from the electricity grid.2024 March 6, “Network News: GWR '230' sets UK battery record”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 13. From the entry discharge
  • The European Commission is pondering how to compel phone companies to come up with a universal plug for their chargers.6 February 2020, “The parable of the plug”, in The Economist. From the entry mither
  • Other supplies vital to a go-bag are a whistle, a pocketknife, headlamp, radio, extra phone chargers (almost vital, Dr.2020 September 19, A.C. Shilton, “Pack a ‘Go Bag’ Now”, in New York Times. From the entry go bag
  • The most important point in the prehearing thinking was that both the charger and the chargee were African Americans.1995, Geneva Smitherman, African American Women Speak Out on Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas. From the entry chargee
  • He was huge, raw-boned, knotty, long of body and long of leg, with the head of a war charger.1917, Zane Gray, Wildfire, page 35. From the entry of
  • We had unplugged from each other, the kind of unplugging where the charger gets torn out of the computer and the computer automatically dies.2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN. From the entry unplug
  • It begins with a woman running into the aisle of a big-box store and telling a tween boy that she needs phone chargers.2020 January 29, Dan Brooks, “Comedy Written for the Machines”, in New York Times Magazine. From the entry tween
  • The chargers spun round each other, biting and striking, while the two blades wheeled and whizzled and circled in gleams of dazzling light.2008, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company. From the entry whizzle
  • His charger wore a blanket of enameled crimson scales and gilded crinet and chamfron, while Lord Tywin himself sported a thick ermine cloak.1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 555. From the entry chamfron
  • Suburbanites with home garages can install chargers, but the lack of public chargers on city streets hasn’t become a major issue yet only because so few people own EVs.2024 January 18, Simon Kuper, “Electric cars are not the future”, in Financial Times. From the entry suburbanite
  • Characteristic examples of devices that have been associated with acoustic noise resulting from supraharmonics are battery chargers for electronic equipment such as personal computers and smart phones.2024, Dimitrios Barkas, Anthoula Menti, Pavlos Pachos, Constantinos S. Psomopoulos, “Experimental investigation of the impact of…. From the entry supraharmonics
  • A burly mechanic wheeled in a bright yellow battery charger on a trolley, furtled under the bonnet and gave the car the full benefit of its volts.2005, Carole Matthews, You Drive Me Crazy, →ISBN. From the entry furtle
  • She used to come to the indoor riding school at Knightsbridge and ride my charger, Foxhunter, which I taught to do counter-canters, extended trots, half-passes and other dressage movements.2005, James Hewitt, Moving On, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry counter-canter
  • A trickle charger is particularly useful for batteries which have to be kept out of use temporarily or for standby batteries which are used only in emergencies.2003, Sharma, Basic Radio & Television, 2/E, →ISBN, page 49. From the entry trickle charger

Meaning of charger

  1. noun A device that charges or recharges.
  2. noun One who charges.
  3. noun A large horse trained for battle and used by the cavalry.

Full definition of charger

Questions about charger in a sentence

How do you use charger in a sentence?
Charger is used as a noun. For example: “Put the batteries in the charger overnight so we can use them tomorrow.”
What is a short sentence with charger?
“This is a charger.”
What does charger mean?
Charger means a device that charges or recharges.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: charger (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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