How to Use switch on in a Sentence

switch on

verb

• In the distance, a light switched on.
  — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026
• My mind is not (switched on) anymore.
  — Sam Lee, New York Times, 27 May 2026
• There are a lot of instincts, a lot of things that kick in and switch on.
  — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 31 Jan. 2023
• The good-enough tool that is already in the building just gets switched on.
  — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
• Between them was a tunable coupler that could be switched on or off.
  — ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2026
• At minimum, dim your brightness and switch on night mode.
  — Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2026
• The dog that switched on the toaster was one of the two that were rescued by neighbors.
  — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2026
• Had one of the vandals entered the kitchen downstairs and switched on the motor?
  — Literary Hub, 21 July 2026
• Hedgepeth said switching on screens is a problem against NSU.
  — Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 23 Mar. 2026
• Between the server and each external node sits a quantum gate that can be switched on or off.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026
• This was a textbook bait-and-switch on San Diego taxpayers.
  — Johnny Lee Dang, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
• The Nuggets did a lot of switching on screens, which risked giving up mismatches.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2026
• For this recipe, simply toss in the ingredients, switch on your slow cooker, and then walk away.
  — Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2026
• Pretty soon, Gumbinner couldn’t zip up a dress, turn off a light switch on the wall, or even hold hands with her boyfriend.
  — Holly Burns, Time, 30 July 2026
• Each one locks into place for safety via the corresponding small knob switch on the handle.
  — New Atlas, 24 Feb. 2026
• With a firm hold, the landlady showed me how to switch on the boiler and wait for ten minutes until the hot water came.
  — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
• In the mouse study, phytic acid switched on a protein called HDAC3.
  — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026
• Most outdoor options today are weather-resistant and can be programmed to switch on at dusk.
  — Rachel Silva, Martha Stewart, 6 May 2026
• According to Kpler, no ship over the weekend passed through the Omani route with its transponder switched on.
  — Tucker Reals, CBS News, 13 July 2026
• There’s a small ceiling fan switch on the motor housing of nearly every model, and odds are good yours is flipped the wrong way right now.
  — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 4 May 2026
• Being able to switch on the heat when things got chilly in the middle of the night was one of our favorite features on the ID.
  — New Atlas, 26 June 2026
• Creativity, dating and your mojo are fully switched on.
  — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
• Grayson was accompanied by another deputy who had his body camera switched on throughout the encounter.
  — Jerry Nowicki, CBS News, 31 July 2026
• Like its phone brother, the Astra 2 has a red-orange switch on the bottom right side that puts it into gaming mode.
  — Florence Ion, PC Magazine, 3 Aug. 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
• Rather than creating a retreat, the room can feel perpetually switched on—and that’s not what most people want at the end of the day.
  — Natasha Bazika, Martha Stewart, 7 Mar. 2026
• But their strategy was fouled up when the car’s occupants switched on the headlights, throwing a glare up the tote road along which the wardens had planned to sprint.
  — Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026
• Underneath the mesh fabric, the speaker has a flat, plastic base with a physical mute switch on one side near the attached power cord.
  — Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 24 June 2026
• That could change after workers switch on the interior LED nodes.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2026
• Arsenal need to stay switched on mentally for PSG’s short corners.
  — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 31 May 2026