CABLE in a Sentence

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For CABLE, below is one of 40 sentences:
I plainly heard a noise upon the cover of my closet, like that of a cable, and the grating of it as it passed through the ring.

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 Meanings and Examples of CABLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cable
 n.  very strong thick rope made of twisted steel or metal wire
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  The cable was about as thick as packthread and the bars of the length and size of a knitting-needle.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V.
2  I trebled the cable to make it stronger, and for the same reason I twisted three of the iron bars together, bending the extremities into a hook.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V.
3  I plainly heard a noise upon the cover of my closet, like that of a cable, and the grating of it as it passed through the ring.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VIII.
4  That he laughed at their folly, and went himself in the boat, ordering his men to take a strong cable along with them.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VIII.
5  He then commanded his men to row up to that side, and fastening a cable to one of the staples, ordered them to tow my chest, as they called it, toward the ship.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VIII.
6  But fly, O wretched men, fly and pluck the cable from the beach.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
7  We hurry far away in precipitate flight, with the suppliant who had so well merited rescue; and silently cut the cable, and bending forward sweep the sea with emulous oars.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
8  Scarcely had he lighted on the prow; the daughter of Saturn snaps the hawser, and the ship, parted from her cable, runs out on the ebbing tide.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
9  Will I, nill I, the ineffable thing has tied me to him; tows me with a cable I have no knife to cut.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. Dusk.
10  When first severed, the head is dropped astern and held there by a cable till the body is stripped.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
11  Then he wrote a long telegram upon a cable form.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
12  Two days ago Woodley came up to my house with this cable, which showed that Ralph Smith was dead.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
13  The boat that now arrived, assured by the answering signal that all was well, soon came in sight, white and silent as a phantom, and cast anchor within a cable's length of shore.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
14  At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean Valjean was worth four men.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
15  And now the time of tide has come; the ship casts off her cables; and from the deserted wharf the uncheered ship for Tarshish, all careening, glides to sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  We have already advised you by cable.
2  I'll wait for the movie to come out on cable.
3  Habit is a cable: we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.
4  A thin cable carries the signal to a computer.
5  An employee sold him on the notion that cable was the medium of the future.
6  This cable should have a plug at one end and a socket at the other.
7  Now that we have cable, we get a wonderfully crisp picture, even on our old TV.
8  Steel cable will be used to replace worn ropes.
9  We ran a cable from the lights to the stage.
10  It provides cable television services and high speed internet services to the community.
11  Second connection to the relay is a cable to the network port on the PC.
12  An electric power distribution bus(or cable) that supplies functional units or electronic devices.
13  A fully fledged ocean-crossing cable helps them detect all sorts of seismic rumbles; that would be a boon to geologists who focus on the Eurasian and African tectonic plates.
14  It spotted a tremor of magnitude 3.4 that had an epicentre 89km from the cable's nearest point.
15  The seismic waves from a nearby earthquake will deform the cable minutely, leaving the returning light slightly out of phase with the light emitted by the laser.