Sample Sentences for
transistor
(auto-selected)

Show 3 more sentences
  • The laser, the transistor, the polio vaccine, the microchip, the hologram, the personal computer, magnetic resonance imaging, CAT scans—the list goes on and on.†  (source)
  • How Mavis brightened at the thought of him, singing ditties from the movie musicals she loved, locking herself in the hall bathroom with a hot comb while the transistor crackled.†  (source)
  • I looked away for a second to blink them off, and Go said, "So I needed a triple-A battery, which, as it turns out, is different from a transistor battery, so I had to find the receipt to return the transistor battery ..."†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 2 word variations
  • He wished Artkin allowed him to take his transistor on operations.†  (source)
  • She went to people's homes and soldered power transistors in their TVs, replaced signal capacitors in old tube-model radios.†  (source)
  • I twisted the knob of my transistor, but it was still too early to pick up anything far from Fulton.†  (source)
  • Couples were drinking and whispering on the grass, and the transistors were turned down.†  (source)
  • The Courier's Tragedy was being put on by a San Narciso group known as the Tank Players, the Tank being a small arena theater located out between a traffic analysis firm and a wildcat transistor outfit that hadn't been there last year and wouldn't be this coming but meanwhile was underselling even the Japanese and hauling in loot by the steamshovelful.†  (source)
  • For a tick of time, before it all turned into white dust, I saw it was a miniature electronic element like the ones I helped the Radar Corps work with in the Army, microscopic wires and grids and transistors, this one designed to dissolve on contact with air.†  (source)
  • Even when he ran up or down stairs, or discovered imperative duties outside, Randy carried his tiny transistor portable.†  (source)
  • They glued transistors to their ears all summer, even during Jorge del Pino's brief hospital stays, and cheered when the Mets caught fire and the Cubs finally folded.†  (source)
  • A red-headed researcher, actually working on a problem of a transistor which would record the TP impulse, hastily invented the fact that TP optical transmission was astigmatic and humbly requested enlightenment.†  (source)
  • Men's minds were too valuable to waste on tasks that a few thousand transistors, some photoelectric cells, and a cubic metre of printed circuits could perform.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)