"wire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- By 1957, Dr. Lillehei and his colleagues in Minnesota had worked out a method of hooking wires directly into the living heart, supplying the electrical signals from outside the chest and taking the place of the missing natural ones.
- One method, hooking wires from a hand-cranked generator to various parts of suspects' bodies, was nicknamed the "Vietnam special" or the "Vietnamese treatment."
- "The boy stated the terrorists had hooked electrical wires to his tongue and shocked him."
- Some workmen rushed off and Terl was hooking wires up to the canister release valves, muttering to himself, checking color coding.
- Klagg had hooked wires all over the cabin, and was fingering special gadgets attached to the set.
- It seems that one of the show's writers, Josh Berman, was working on an episode about an electrocution, and along the way discovered that you could light up a pickle by hooking wires to it and turning on the juice.
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