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.
• The cable knit fleece is nice and soft and will keep them cozy all winter long.
  — Enjanae' Taylor, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2023
• The dongle features the same cutout as the mouse, to comfortably fit the USB-C end of the cable.
  — PCMAG, 7 Feb. 2024
• With that, the cable broke, and Edward and the pallet of wood vanished into the darkness.
  — John Hanc, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023
• About 45 miles from the volcano, the eruption cut off a seafloor fiber-optic cable.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
• In-market fans can also stream the game on the Bally Sports app through their cable provider.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 5 July 2023
• Fans who don’t have a cable subscription can stream games on the Bally Sports+ app.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2024
• The buoys are made of hard plastic, tethered to the bottom of the river with heavy cable and only about a half-mile long.
  — Mireya Villarreal, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2023
• The streaming and cable homes of Friends is paying tribute to Matthew Perry.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2023
• Check out the full 2023 World Series schedule below, and the best way to catch the games online without cable.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 27 Oct. 2023
• Shark Week first entered the cable TV ocean in the summer of 1988 when cable was still in its infancy.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 21 July 2023
• Copper-laden cables discarded last year could have wrapped around the world 107 times.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 11 Oct. 2023
• Unscrew and remove the back panel, remove the board shield, pop out a cable, and unscrew the old storage.
  — WIRED, 30 Sep. 2023
• Dropping four series at once is not a minor move for the cable network.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Sep. 2023
• Instead of a tangle of unsightly wires, The Frame has only one cable that won’t distract from the art.
  — Lauren Taylor, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2023
• As cable reached critical mass in the late 1980s, there were fears that consumers would have to have a pay TV subscription to see the Super Bowl.
  — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
• Broadband had the potential to do everything cable TV had done and more.
  — Makena Kelly, The Verge, 20 July 2023
• He was brought in to turn around the purveyor of infomercials that were once a staple of cable TV—no easy feat in the age of streamers and social video.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 June 2023
• More than 40 years ago, David Yurman sculpted his eponymous label’s first cable bracelet out of strands of gold wire.
  — Alexis Bennett Parker, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2024
• My outfitter looped a long, heavy-duty cable around its rack.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 10 Aug. 2023
• Reports last week from Israeli news outlet Globes suggested the Houthis had been behind the damage to the cables.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
• The cables holding the sub snapped while it was being lowered into the ocean off Massachusetts.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2023
• The fire department had been unable to quench the fire until the utility, which owns the malfunctioning cables, gave them the go-ahead.
  — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• There are more than 15 undersea Internet cables in the Red Sea.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2024
• The cable and dongle options offer the best latency thanks to a polling frequency of 1,000Hz.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• The court proceedings were held in a jail outside Islamabad where Khan is detained for the secret cable case.
  — TIME, 23 Oct. 2023
• The program is making its move from USA under a five-year deal; most episodes of the show are available on Peacock for those without cable access.
  — Vulture, 7 Nov. 2023
• That’s when the snowmobiler drove into a cable, which sent him flying.
  — Helena Wegner, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2024

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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.
• What are the rules regarding contact between the football and the camera/cabling suspended above the field?
  — Mike Pereira, sacbee, 12 Dec. 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
• So the only way to kill it off is to bully cable companies into dropping the network.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Trying to cable or tie them back to the main trunk is almost always wasted energy.
  — oregonlive, 20 Nov. 2022
• The wireless HTC Vive looked similar to today's cabled model with the addition of a box of electronics worn on the head of the user.
  — Martyn Williams, PCWorld, 30 May 2017
• 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
• Two days after the president’s telegram, his fever broken, Welles cabled the White House.
  — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2017
• That would allow the authority to install new cabling while keeping trains running on the old system.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2019
• Despite the Rio fiasco, Latin American cities are still cabling up.
  — The Economist, 26 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
• The most recent season of the series jumped from Netflix to cable channel PopTV, but the first three wonderful years are still streaming on their original home.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 1 July 2020
• 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 city has contracted with Alpha Technologies to manage and install the huts, which will hold battery banks, electrical wiring and racks and cabling for equipment.
  — Carina Julig, The Denver Post, 1 Nov. 2019
• Remembering the Maine Newspapers spent tens of thousands of dollars cabling news.
  — John Maxwell Hamilton, National Geographic, 16 Apr. 2019
• 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
• 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
• From the outdoor Yagi, a leg of coax cabling needs to be routed indoors and fed to the signal booster, which then has an output port which connects to an indoor panel antenna via another coax run.
  — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2019
• Getting On Track Instead of ripping out and replacing the tunnels concrete bench walls and cabling, the plan calls for hanging new cables along the side of the tunnel's and repairing or reinforcing damaged sections of the wall.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2019
• 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
• Ford cabled Washington that the government was using live ammunition to quell the demonstrations.
  — Charles Glass, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• From there, Webpass taps copper Ethernet cabling behind the walls to deliver speeds ranging from 100 megabits per second to a 1 gigabit per second to customers.
  — Mike Freeman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 May 2017
• 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
• Change disputes that dragged on for months involved items as seemingly small as the bathroom fixtures and as consequential as changes to the placement of airline check-in kiosks that affected electrical and data cabling plans.
  — Jon Murray, The Denver Post, 14 Nov. 2019
• For example, to provide utilities, including water and electricity, to the stations, workers had to tunnel under the Dulles Toll Road for cabling work.
  — Washington Post, 20 July 2019

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