How to Use circuit board in a Sentence

circuit board

noun
  • Ben bent the glass and wired up the transformer’s circuit board.
    James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Kids will build their own machine and power it with the circuit board.
    Jamie Swinnerton, Houston Chronicle, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Between the plaster and the studs in these walls lay hundreds of miles of wire and pipe, wound as tight as a circuit board.
    Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
  • The lines also could be caused by a flaw in the $10 cable that connects the laptop’s screen to the PC’s main circuit board.
    Steve Alexander, Star Tribune, 6 Sep. 2020
  • Sellers on eBay have listed the game’s circuit boards alone for over $1,000.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • In his other hand, Wang holds a small circuit board with a blinking LED light in the middle.
    Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The new and improved glitter bomb includes a circuit board and four phones that record the sting from all sides and upload footage to the cloud.
    Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
  • The back cover had been removed, and the wires had been fused to a top corner of the phone’s circuit board with a soldering iron.
    Michael Wilson, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
  • The hacking tool, a custom circuit board known as a modchip, uses off-the-shelf parts that cost around $25.
    Wired, 11 Aug. 2022
  • This circuit board outfit is a 90s Givenchy pull from the house's Alexander McQueen era.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 26 Feb. 2024
  • In a series of tests, the new robot could jump up to 20 times its body length, climb walls, solder a circuit board and escape from a mock prison.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2023
  • That required him to take apart the device internals, find the circuit board, and identify the chips.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2020
  • The problem is that the batteries often don’t get changed and start to corrode, then damage the circuit board.
    Ben Kuchera, Ars Technica, 7 July 2019
  • This spacer is used to ensure your SSD properly lines up with the circuit board.
    Saira Mueller, Wired, 17 Nov. 2021
  • My mechanic says the problem is the circuit board behind the dashboard.
    Star Tribune, 18 June 2021
  • Your saliva can get in there, and moisture is always bad around anything with a circuit board.
    Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Its work space is bland, harshly lit, and strewn with plywood and circuit boards and sensors and joysticks and cameras.
    Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2018
  • Open compartments on the wings reveal wires, tiny motors, and circuit boards.
    David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
  • SoMs are just bigger (and cheaper!) than SoCs, since the components are strewn around a tiny circuit board rather than crammed into a tiny chip.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 7 May 2018
  • The signal equipment looks very old-school: a series of green circuit boards surrounded by lots of wires and cables.
    Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The badges may have creative shapes and, in addition to the circuit board, other hardware such as buttons, small displays and more.
    Domini Clark, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Mason brought a laptop, special software, a box of circuit boards and dozens of sockets and screwdrivers.
    Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Nearly the size of an adult’s hand, the mechanics of the device were sandwiched between two panes of plastic—wires and circuit boards exposed.
    Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 8 May 2017
  • Composite and carbon fiber could work too, even circuit boards.
    Wired, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Autoliv’s Pyroswitch throws a switch to disconnect the power source from the circuit board.
    Wired, 6 Oct. 2019
  • The team scrambled to find an older circuit board that could be swapped in, working all through the night, and eventually pulled it off in time for Sunday’s race.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 28 July 2018
  • Kia dealers will place a new fuse in the unit’s circuit board that will solve the issue in affected vehicles without charge.
    Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The circuit boards create, send, and receive electronic signals that travel along the rails.
    Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Dorky dads will lose it over this Traintrackr, a circuit board that shows the New York subway system's train statuses in real-time.
    Malia Griggs, SELF, 21 May 2022
  • What is autonomy when some version of your thoughts are read into a circuit board?
    Elissa Welle, STAT, 18 July 2022

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