switch on

verb

switched on; switching on; switches on

: to turn on (something) by turning or pushing a button or moving a switch, lever, etc.

I switched on the TV.

She switched the light on.

Examples of switch on in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There’s a switch on the keyboard for selecting the connection method and, in Bluetooth mode, the keyboard can be paired with three separate devices. —Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026

Ed Bugg, 9th Ward, to flip the switch on that light show at Phillips Park, said Hoesly. —Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026

When the electromagnetic field was switched on, however, the researchers observed a halt in division, though the cells continued to increase in length, in some instances becoming 300 times longer than usual. —Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026

In internal testing, the Game Native developers found that on a phone that delivered 30fps in The Last of Us Part 1, switching on frame generation doubled the game's frame rate to 60. —Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 7 May 2026

Rhymes for switch on

• anton
• argon
• axon
• baronne
• baryon
• baton
• boron
• buisson
• bygone
• capon
• cardon
• chiffon