How to Use socket in a Sentence

socket

noun

• She plugged the lamp into the socket.
• He screwed the light bulb into the socket.
• His shoulder popped out of its socket.
• This will require a new socket, called AM5, and a new chipset.
  — Michael J. Miller, PCMAG, 14 Jan. 2022
• The dog tore through the house and yard and nearly pulled our shoulders out of their sockets on walks.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2024
• Knead the putty thoroughly to mix the two parts, then jam the wad into the socket.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
• The left one holds a socket set and the air hose and inflator for my Power Tank.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 18 Apr. 2022
• Coghill's skull was fractured and his orbital socket cracked on the left side of his face.
  — Fox News, 24 Sep. 2021
• One girl had her right eye hanging from its socket, next to her jaw.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2021
• My shoulder had popped out of the socket during the challenge.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• Tatis has had his shoulder pop out of socket at least five times since mid-March.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2021
• Ross says the new shade should completely cover the rod and socket.
  — Michelle Brunner, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
• Take very small pieces of black or green dough and set them on the ends of the lights adjacent to the cord to mimic the socket that connects the bulbs to the strand.
  — Alana Allred, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
• The head of the femur (upper leg bone) sits in the acetabulum, a socket in the pelvic bone to create the hip joint.
  — Milo F. Bryant, Men's Health, 25 Oct. 2022
• When Daniel Kish takes his glass eyes out of their sockets, the two boys sitting near him have some questions.
  — Michael Minahan, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
• One eye is discoloured — a cloudy whitish-blue; the other is popping out of its socket.
  — Olivia Harrison, refinery29.com, 1 Nov. 2021
• His left shoulder popped out, then back into the socket.
  — Jim Ingraham, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
• The pain feels like my knee is being pulled out of its socket, and my knees start aching after a couple of hours.
  — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• Choose a box or bench low enough to squat where your hip socket is parallel to your knee at the bottom.
  — Andrew Coates, Men's Health, 20 Dec. 2022
• Their slack faces have the look of Greek masks: slits for shut eyes and black sockets for nostrils, mouths turned down like sickle moons.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• Better to plug in to a standard 120-volt wall socket for 5 ½ hours every night.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 9 Apr. 2022
• Dr Hawkes explains that the brow is supposed to sit just above the bone and the arch should be in line with the socket of the eyeball — markers of a normal face.
  — Beth Ashley, refinery29.com, 4 July 2022
• Sale prices on hand tools, such as socket sets and home tool kits, should also be abundant as well.
  — Tony Carrick, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2023
• The four sockets should be plenty for the mainstream users and gamers the motherboard targets.
  — Joe Shields, PCMAG, 3 Sep. 2023
• During the melee, Hayes' arm was pulled from its socket, according to the lawsuit.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023
• The news at the time reported that Alexa had told a 10-year-old girl to put a penny in an electrical socket.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
• In addition to the torn labrum in his left shoulder, Mayfield has a fractured humerus bone, believed to be in the ball that sits in the socket.
  — cleveland, 26 Oct. 2021
• One omission of the WiiM Mini is the absence of a headphone socket.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• There was a fake eyeball in the left socket and about a half-dozen original teeth still attached, but the jaw was missing.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• Roast for 2½ to 3 hours, until a leg easily wiggles out of its socket and the potatoes are tender.
  — Ali Slagle, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024