Example Sentences

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It is a sleek pod — half spaceship, half motherboard, with glass floors and a ceiling circuited with green neon tubes — on the eighth floor of a building in the bustling Shibuya district.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2023

She shows no bitterness about the turn of events that short circuited her diplomatic trajectory.

From Washington Times • May 31, 2014

Their invention, Roominate, offers girls the experience of building a working circuited dollhouse in pastel colors.

From Time • Nov. 27, 2013

Wouldn’t that have short- circuited, say, the return of Steve Jobs to Apple?

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 30, 2011

It is like the electrical wire that is "short circuited," it expends itself in one spasmodic combustion.

From Sex--The Unknown Quantity The Spiritual Function of Sex by McIvor-Tyndall, Alexander J. (Alexander James)