How to use socket in a sentence

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• That plug fit into the other socket, but it won't go in this one.From the entry fit
• The socket communications layer is agnostic with regard to its underlying transport mechanism—it is “transport-agnostic”.From the entry agnostic
• Swap those cables over. The red one should be in the left socket.From the entry over
• I can’t connect it, because the plug doesn’t marry with the socket.From the entry marry
• I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again.From the entry plug
• I need to get a multiplug as I'm already using all of my sockets.From the entry multiplug
• His haggard eyes were deep-set, sunken into their sockets from exhaustion.From the entry deep-set
• An electric oven needs an electric socket.From the entry electric
• It is quite tatty and lacks tables - but does have plug sockets.2026 January 7, 'Mystery Shopper', “Cornish cream - without the jams?”, in RAIL, number 1052, page 48. From the entry struggle
• Sensillum with smooth and distinctly porous wall embedded in the inflexible socket (Figs. 4k, 5h, 6h).2023 January 12, Artur Taszakowski, Adrian Masłowski, Kent M. Daane, Jolanta Brożek, “Closer view of antennal sensory organs of two…. From the entry nano-pore
• And the sockets must be different in structure and specification and can't be exchanged to avoid misplug.2016, GB 50397-2007: Translated English of Chinese Standard., page 63. From the entry misplug
• It looks like a pig snout, and we call it the Schuko socket, seen in Figure 8.7.2015, Bruno Skvorc, Jump Start PHP Environment: Master the World's Most Popular Language, →ISBN. From the entry Schuko
• Put her in pigtails and stick her finger in a light socket, and she’d be Pippi Longstocking.2011, Julia Watts, Finding H. F., Bella Books. From the entry Pippi Longstocking
• The need to preserve alveolar bone is paramount and best achieved by atraumatic exodontias including socket compression.2006, David A. Mitchell, An Introduction to Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, page 187. From the entry exodontia
• I stood up and the suddenness of my movement yanked the telephone jack out of its socket.2002, Kamila Shamsie, Kartography, Bloomsbury (2003), pages 336-337. From the entry telephone jack
• They make nuts, bolts, tapping screws, fasteners, anchors, togglers, drills, taps, rings, sockets and pop rivets.2002, Stephen Ausherman, Typical Pigs, →ISBN, page 47. From the entry toggler
• Statues of condottieri stood in their airless niches, darkness flaring in their eye sockets and nostrils.2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 236. From the entry condottiere
• One snake-necked Whiteback teeters on the head then, steady, dips into the socket.1999, Alice Friman, Zoo, page 6. From the entry whiteback
• In the sockets of his eyes she can see only mirrors.1993 January 31, Ridley McIntyre, “STORY: GHOSTDANCER (2)”, in rec.games.frp.misc (Usenet), retrieved 19 Mar 2019, message-ID…. From the entry e-bike
• This is set in a socket and is packed with boulders.1973, Glyn Daniel, Poul Kjaerum, Megalithic Graves and Ritual, page 138. From the entry kerb stone
• External torque to move socket wrench is produced by squeezing the handles.1964 April, Popular Science, page 115. From the entry plench
• The posterio-lateral socket ridge lies between the socket and the interarea (pl. 2, figs. 9b, 13b, 16b).1949, Geological Survey Professional Paper, page L-2. From the entry interarea
• They emerge through the battered eye sockets.2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 583. From the entry calvarium
• John said Julissa used scissors to cut the tape he had placed around an electrical socket to protect the children.2016, Laura Tillman, The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City. From the entry Julissa
• Where AC and DC sockets or sockets of different voltages are installed in the same place, they shall be distinguished clearly.2016, GB 50397-2007: Translated English of Chinese Standard., page 63. From the entry misplug
• The outer yett was closed, and a torch burned in a socket set in the gatehouse wall beside the archway.2015, Douglas Nicholas, Throne of Darkness, page 126. From the entry yett
• It can manage devices, automounts, paths, sockets, and other things.2015, Christopher Negus, Linux Bible, page 567. From the entry automount
• Tooth implantation is subthecodont as μCT images show that the teeth sit in shallow sockets (but see below).2015 September 10, “Anatomy of the Enigmatic Reptile Elachistosuchus huenei Janensch, 1949 (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Upper Triassic of…. From the entry subthecodont
• To understand abstraction, imagine a power socket in the EU.2015, Bruno Skvorc, Jump Start PHP Environment: Master the World's Most Popular Language, →ISBN. From the entry Schuko
• Adding to that is the fact that the cow eye protrudes slightly from its socket, giving the cow a googly-eyed look.2012, Florian Werner, Cow: A Bovine Biography, page 93. From the entry googly-eyed
• Step Three: Attach the socket to the top of the pen tube sticking out of the pill bottle's cap.2011 December 22, Frederick Foote, “Chapter 3: Homemade Bong Add-Ons”, in How To : Bongs, First Edition edition, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 118. From the entry chubbler
• Wallplate sockets may become obstructed when a room is repainted; be sure the gold contacts inside the socket are clean.1995, David Hakala, Modems made easy: the basics and beyond!, page 237. From the entry wall plate
• Cardinal plates broad, ventrally convex, merging in inner socket ridges.1975: Polska Akademia Nauk Komitet Geologiczny, Acta Geologica Polonica, volume 25, page 118 (Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe). From the entry falciferous
• 'I reckon he's balmy,' Claud said, and Bert grinned darkly, rolling his misty eye slowly round in its socket.1958 April 1, Roald Dahl, “Parson's Pleasure”, in Esquire, page 148. From the entry balmy
• He could feel his eyes filling their sockets.1953, Ian Fleming, “The Secret Agent”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 9. From the entry antrum
• The socket of the rim lock tore off to one good heft of the shoulder, and we were in.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 82. From the entry heft
• The socket of the rim-lock tore off to one good heft of the shoulder, and we were in.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 82. From the entry rim lock

Meaning of socket

1. noun An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket).
2. noun A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint.
3. noun The socket head for a socket wrench.

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Questions about socket in a sentence

How do you use socket in a sentence?

Socket is used as a noun and verb. For example: “That plug fit into the other socket, but it won't go in this one.”

What is a short sentence with socket?

“Near-synonyms: jack, outlet, receptacle, wall socket”

What does socket mean?

Socket means an opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket).