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    1. An INTERROGATOR paces back and forth in front of them in the dark room, illuminated by a dim naked bulb in a socket hanging from a wire from the ceiling


    2. But that leaves the toaster … where shall I put that? It has to be near a socket … I look round the room, ah, now that I have cleared that bit of shelf, it could go there


    3. His head is full of the swarm, full of the buzz and drone of putrefaction, and in the middle of the swarm he can see an empty eye socket staring out at him from this heart of darkness in the middle of a Devon farmyard


    4. He is filled up to the hilt by the empty eye socket


    5. Roman held tight, the momentum almost pulling his shoulder out of socket


    6. It felt as if my femur ground into the socket of my hip


    7. not one that plugs into the microphone and headphone socket on your


    8. The child now seemed stunned into silence as the cyborg extended its tendril through the boy’s eye socket


    9. “Here, take this,” he said, walking back to the trap and picking up a thicker cable which he plugged into a waterproof socket on a nearby tree


    10. The electrician plugged it in an electric socket in the wall next to the driveway and they sat down in the house to watch and see if the old dog would come by

    11. Dawn followed the cables with a finger and there, on top of a plastic cap, she saw a deep socket


    12. HTTP pipelining is a technique that allows the browser to send multiple requests to a single socket without waiting for the corresponding responses


    13. His right eye was closed and sunken, as though the socket was empty


    14. The rock landed heavily just over the wolf’s eye socket


    15. It rose higher, slowly rolling upwards as Fin’s eyeball dropped from the socket


    16. Craning and twisting my neck on its socket, I searched the sky


    17. " the voice stopped as LP ripped the cord out from the cigarette lighter socket


    18. answered them and the phone had been pulled out of its socket for


    19. He would fix the plug into the socket and switch on the table fan


    20. "When the man [the angel] saw that he could not overpower him [Jacob], he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man

    21. Because the angel had wrenched his hip out of the socket, Jacob had a limp


    22. 27 And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket


    23. seal around this slip socket and the existing


    24. measure to the inside of the coupling socket


    25. into the trap socket and the other socket at the


    26. and a brass tee and brass socket fitted and the


    27. Of the wall socket


    28. out of the shoulder socket


    29. The rest of the charge slowed to a more leisurely pace as he returned his bow to its socket


    30. Theo had just got one of the bolts almost into its socket

    31. And joint, and socket; but unsatisfied


    32. The killing machine upped his pace and continued to land a mesmerising and unstoppable number of blows; Azeth’s left arm was eventually hacked from its socket as he failed to keep pace, the second blade quickly followed piercing his ribs


    33. With a dislocated shoulder the head of the upper arm bone is out of it socket and to reduce it one has to first pull the head away from the surrounding soft tissue where it had lodged and then rotate the head back in the socket


    34. He then flexes the arm so that the head pops back in the socket


    35. He then cut the unused socket off the extension lead, bared a long length of the phase wire, threaded it through and around the meat securely, clipped off and isolated the other two wires, plugged the cord into a switched outlet beside the door, and carried the bait outside


    36. I set the machine up as per instructions and plugged it into a wall socket


    37. My eye socket was empty and the world looked weird through only one eye


    38. One example of it is that, it has a plug that comes with a socket in it, in which you can plug your fan into


    39. A boat was moving out into the bay! Gritting his teeth he increased his speed, but before he reached the beach he heard the rasp and creak of ropes, and the grind of the great sweep in its socket


    40. With one jerk, she ripped the telephone from its socket

    41. With a curse he crosses the room and turns the switch on at the socket; the television still does not work


    42. He pulled out the headphone jack from the laptop socket and immediately the recording of the message telling Twinn to return ‘straight back there,’ presumably to Wales, was audible


    43. I glided out the bar from the socket and moved off


    44. Unless the bar and socket were automatic, which I was certain were not


    45. As he lay writhing with his blooded fingers clutching at his blood gushing neck, one more carefully aimed thrust through an eye socket passed through the back of his skull and on into the ground below and, after a few moments of violent twitching against the firmly staked head, the body lay still


    46. Gibbons have wrists comprised of a ball and socket bone


    47. Though he knew she could tear his arm free from its socket without so much as a slight tug, she very gently led him along into the darkness of the cave


    48. She noticed the broken socket for the light bulb was on the wall next to the bed, and with the position of the door horizontally at the back Lezura realized that they were actually standing on what was the room’s wall


    49. Adam thought that he looked like one of those old pirates you see in the movies, with his black eye patch covering his left eye socket


    50. He placed it on the ground in the middle of the shed and plugged the end of the lead into a power socket












































    1. Claggart, socketed in one corner of the sleeper sofa, looked a little rheumy-eyed, but otherwise intact


    2. And he and the boys gazed down on the instrument, the great black tube of an eight-inch reflector, eyepieces socketed beside it, and its tripod cradled


    1. their sockets, and their tongues will


    2. My eyes could not have been any more springing from their sockets, nor my mouth any more gaping open


    3. popping his eyes out of their sockets


    4. The boy’s eyes nearly popped out of their sockets when it


    5. To twinkle in their sockets till the stars return


    6. As the man looked up, the knotted mess of hair on his face parted, allowing Brice to see his eyes -- a pair of black and empty sockets


    7. Her eyes were empty sockets, as if they had ruptured in her skull


    8. A pair of daggers sunk into her empty eye sockets


    9. threatening to pop out of his sockets and he was coughing with


    10. His eyes opened to reveal white sockets, while his chest twitched with electricity that ran along his skin

    11. "Electricity, power sockets in the floor


    12. One of the floor sockets near Ronnie


    13. female sockets of the router that Angela had


    14. I got my first good look at Elijah now the scars on his face where hideous and disfiguring but worse than this was his eyes which were a fish belly white with no pupils or irises and round the sockets the flesh was pitted and black from the explosive that had taken his sight


    15. She stared at him with wide eyes that bulged out of gaunt, hollow sockets


    16. Two cats clung to her, one with its claws buried in her eye sockets


    17. The pilot was screaming, blood streaming from his empty eye sockets, shaking his head back and forth so violently that Terry was splattered with warm blood


    18. As the hijacker's eyes filled with tears, rolling around in their sockets, Uncle Hobart snatched his pistol and brought it smartly down across his head


    19. I was working away in our brand new study, built with the insurance money collected after the fiasco with the chimney, connecting the multi-core cables into their various sockets


    20. The angry red sockets would never look pretty

    21. A shell remained: a vacant derelict with cindered walls, empty sockets that had been windows, and a collapsed roof jutting its charcoaled timbers skyward like rigored fingers of the dead


    22. Now, in the shadows of one of those empty sockets, he was watching the slow passage of events and squirming to find, for the long hours ahead, reasonable comfort while squatted precariously atop an unstable stack of charred wood


    23. I cannot say he looked at me for his eye sockets were empty


    24. As they decelerated during the second half of the journey, Trevor’s body swung around so his feet pointed towards the insect sphere and his arms threatened to pop out of their sockets


    25. Blue light from the screens makes her cheekbones and forehead brighter but casts shadows in her eye sockets


    26. Sierra’s eyes toaded out of their sockets


    27. out of their sockets


    28. 18 As the golden pillars are on the sockets of silver; so are the fair feet with a constant heart


    29. boldness of speech, dislocated his hands and feet with racking engines, and wrenching them from their sockets, dismembered him


    30. 32 And you shall hang it on four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, on the four sockets of silver

    31. 10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver


    32. 12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten


    33. 16 And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four


    34. 17 All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass


    35. 11 The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,


    36. 17 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court,


    37. 24 And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons


    38. 36 And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver


    39. 38 And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass


    40. 10 Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver

    41. 12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver


    42. 14 The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three


    43. 15 And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three


    44. 17 And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver


    45. 19 And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver


    46. 27 And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket


    47. 30 And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar,


    48. 31 And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about


    49. 33 And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets,


    50. 40 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,













































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    Synonyms for "socket"

    socket jack outlet plug connection fitting

    "socket" definitions

    a bony hollow into which a structure fits


    receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted


    a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted