How to Use receptacle in a Sentence

receptacle

noun

• She used the box as a receptacle for her jewelry.
• Keep in Mind The plug is on the heavier side and may pull away from the receptacle.
  — Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 May 2024
• Here’s how to start: ▪ Get a receptacle for wood chips or chunks.
  — Jim Shahin, charlotteobserver, 29 Aug. 2017
• Here’s how to start: ▪ Get a receptacle for wood chips or chunks.
  — Jim Shahin, sacbee, 5 Sep. 2017
• Here's how to start: - Get a receptacle for wood chips or chunks.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• The key was a clay receptacle for the molten metal: a crucible.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
• Each of these spines is in contact with a glass receptacle filled with acids and placed within the mine.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2021
• The biggest changes will be in scheduling and the type of receptacle that will be used to handle the waste.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al.com, 24 June 2019
• Hooks for my pot holders, a receptacle in which my sponges can rest and drain.
  — Jhumpa Lahiri, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• The east end of the street is blocked by bollards screwed into receptacles.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• Each program has its own receptacles and its own rules about what does and doesn’t go in.
  — Idaho Statesman, 9 July 2024
• The stops have receptacles for used syringes and dog waste.
  — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019
• The rugged trash receptacles are only part of the answer.
  — Martin E. Comas, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• The tech detects when your cat has done their business and whisks the yuck into a waste receptacle.
  — Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 12 July 2022
• The idea is to have a receptacle that stores enough water to provide a drinking water source and a bathing pool.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Apr. 2021
• All homes in the city are now required to provide a 40-amp circuit and a receptacle near a parking space.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2022
• Go inside a post office and place your mail inside a receptacle or hand it to a clerk.
  — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 25 Oct. 2022
• The new receptacles — which are made of plastic and feature wheels and a rubber latch — will cost less than $50 apiece and are being sold through the city.
  — Michael Gartland, New York Daily News, 8 July 2024
• Please place any trash receptacles in hallways and turn out lights.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• Teague took off running and soared over the receptacle, then relished the astonished cheers of those who had put him up to it.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2020
• The city took great pains to try to keep regular trash out of the street-corner receptacles; the Smart Bins are locked and can only be opened with an app.
  — Curbed, 6 Apr. 2023
• These are whisked to the third receptacle, called a calciner.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• It was staffed by two attendants and had three stalls, plus a trash receptacle.
  — Cynthia Hubert and Ryan Lillis, sacbee, 5 Mar. 2018
• The gun was found outside the mall, under a trash receptacle, Richardson said.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
• The point is that the way Ailes expected ‘his’ women to dress makes clear the role they were expected to play: receptacles.
  — James Warren, The Hive, 12 Dec. 2017
• Police traced the trash from that receptacle to a Richmond landfill, but no remains were found in a search there.
  — Washington Post, 17 May 2021
• The housing for the treats, within the body, was either a glass bottle or a cardboard receptacle.
  — Brenda Yenke, cleveland.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• Guests could pull a line out of a stainless-steel disc on one wall and attach it to a receptacle on another.
  — Steve Bailey, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2019
• Gault also said that the liquid being disposed of in the clip was mostly water used to clean a paint receptacle.
  — Athena Sobhan, Peoplemag, 27 May 2024
• The back of the device has a two-prong plug, positioned toward the bottom to leave room for the second outlet in a two-outlet receptacle.
  — PCMAG, 15 July 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024