How to Use cable in a Sentence

cable

1 of 2 noun

• The bridge is held up by cables.
• We need more cable to hook up the computers.
• Their company supplied cable for the project.
• Then some cables snapped again.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Apr. 2026
• There was no cable; video games weren’t a thing.
  — Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
• Doug’s place wasn’t wired for cable.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
• There are a few ways to tell when your cable is going bad.
  — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
• And the same pattern showed up on cable.
  — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2026
• And even cable news has gotten the memo.
  — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 17 Feb. 2026
• Make sure the cable is out of their jumping range.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2026
• Do not touch electric cables that have been blown loose.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2025
• Two of them flew slightly above the small plane and its cable.
  — Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
• What are the best speaker cables to buy?
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
• If the locking clip snaps off, the cable won’t stay in the port.
  — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
• The kind that play well on cable news and social media.
  — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 11 Jan. 2026
• There are a lot of people who don't like putting the cable into the car.
  — Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
• There are a lot of people who don't like putting the cable into the car.
  — Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
• The brake cables are pulled with an electric motor rather than a hand lever.
  — Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2026
• There are piles of rubble and tangles of cable.
  — Jack Lang, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
• The phone and internet cables that should have stretched over the track are gone.
  — John Ruwitch, NPR, 3 June 2026
• Plans include both high-speed cable and even faster fiber options.
  — Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
• Tune in with an antenna or your cable provider.
  — Pueng Vongs, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026
• Ice is falling the from the bridge's cables and towers.
  — Tanya Wildt, Freep.com, 21 Feb. 2026
• Prices and speeds listed are only for cable plans.
  — Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
• From the halls of Congress to the chaos of cable news what a ride it’s been!
  — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 17 Oct. 2025
• From the halls of Congress to the chaos of cable news what a ride it's been!
  — Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
• Caulk around cables, vents, and any spots letting air escape.
  — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2026
• Don’t have cable or an ability to stream?
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 18 May 2026
• Welcome to the world of cable news, sheriff.
  — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 19 Feb. 2026
• This is the old box of cables in your garage, that kind of technology.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2026

cable

2 of 2 verb

• The soldiers cabled back to headquarters.
• She cabled the news to the United States.
• She cabled her parents for money.
• Mines could be rocket-propelled, cabled or sit on the seabed and be triggered by sound, movement or light.
  — Emma Burrows, Fortune, 24 May 2026
• Mines could be rocket-propelled, cabled or sit on the seabed and be triggered by sound, movement or light.
  — ABC News, 23 May 2026
• Mines could be rocket-propelled, cabled or sit on the seabed and be triggered by sound, movement or light.
  — Emma Burrows, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026
• Then crew members ran cable into the actors' home so that cameras could be set up inside.
  — Leah Marilla Thomas, refinery29.com, 21 Aug. 2020
• Trying to cable or tie them back to the main trunk is almost always wasted energy.
  — oregonlive, 20 Nov. 2022
• Finally, is there any way the arborist could cable and brace that branch to another strong branch as a counter support?
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Dec. 2017
• So the only way to kill it off is to bully cable companies into dropping the network.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021
• The flexibility to cable up or stream albums to wireless ear candy would just be the cherry on top.
  — New Atlas, 19 Sep. 2025
• It’s been rewired and cabled, according to the estate listing, and replica tiles and fixtures have been installed.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2018
• That would allow the authority to install new cabling while keeping trains running on the old system.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2019
• What are the rules regarding contact between the football and the camera/cabling suspended above the field?
  — Mike Pereira, sacbee, 12 Dec. 2017
• Some are much steeper than others, and may not be cabled across their entirety, creating a different type of challenge.
  — Jen Murphy, Outside, 8 Oct. 2025
• Decor The space is fairly minimal, but by far the coolest thing is a hanging motorcycle cabled from the tall ceilings.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 26 May 2017
• There is a seemingly endless parade of Democrats to cable news cameras and green rooms to opine about the case to remove the president.
  — Reid J. Epstein, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2019
• Two days after the president’s telegram, his fever broken, Welles cabled the White House.
  — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2017
• The headquarters will include a six-story building, walking trails and Corning’s cabling for an all fiber network.
  — Katherine Peralta, charlotteobserver, 6 Oct. 2017
• The Tokyo Olympics are officially underway, but how can cable cutters take part in this year’s action?
  — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 24 July 2021
• Despite the Rio fiasco, Latin American cities are still cabling up.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• These extra batteries are not cabled up to the system to merge into one huge energy supply, but stowed in weatherproof bags until needed.
  — New Atlas, 22 Oct. 2025
• Inspect mature trees with heavy or unbalanced limbs, which should be pruned or supported by cabling or bracing (a service provided by arborists).
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Aug. 2025
• Remembering the Maine Newspapers spent tens of thousands of dollars cabling news.
  — John Maxwell Hamilton, National Geographic, 16 Apr. 2019
• The damage to subway cabling from corrosion was extensive, and the repairs have been strictly temporary patches.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 2 July 2018
• The bulk of sales currently come from electrical systems—cabling, connectors and the like—which will do nicely as cars become ever more like computers on wheels.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2017
• After cabling is complete, the underground electric will be energized and properties along the road will be switched from overhead to underground service.
  — Steve Dreyer, Pomerado News, 25 June 2019
• Before the structure is finished, Aref said, crews should ensure that each of its components is secured by cabling or other supporting mechanisms.
  — Francisco Alvarado, Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2018
• Ford cabled Washington that the government was using live ammunition to quell the demonstrations.
  — Charles Glass, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• Some members of Congress beam under national spotlights and become household names (in households glued to cable political talk shows).
  — Steve Israel, Washington Post, 11 June 2026