How to Use circuit board in a Sentence

circuit board

noun
  • Ben bent the glass and wired up the transformer’s circuit board.
    — James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The wound is just a hole with mesh and wires and circuit boards inside.
    — Rachel Raposas, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Kids will build their own machine and power it with the circuit board.
    — Jamie Swinnerton, Houston Chronicle, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Computer chips on a circuit board.
    — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 7 June 2026
  • Composite and carbon fiber could work too, even circuit boards.
    — Wired, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Your saliva can get in there, and moisture is always bad around anything with a circuit board.
    — Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Between the plaster and the studs in these walls lay hundreds of miles of wire and pipe, wound as tight as a circuit board.
    — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Open compartments on the wings reveal wires, tiny motors, and circuit boards.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Duffy added in a post on X that the cause of the strong odor was because of a circuit board that overheated.
    — Mathew Schumer, Baltimore Sun, 13 Mar. 2026
  • What is autonomy when some version of your thoughts are read into a circuit board?
    — Elissa Welle, STAT, 18 July 2022
  • The source of the strong odor was traced to a circuit board that overheated, and it was replaced, Duffy said.
    — Michael Loria, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The line starts with making the circuit board that will attach the electronics to the product.
    — Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2026
  • The electrodes send signals to a tiny circuit board that connects to a phone via Bluetooth.
    — Robert S. Gable, IEEE Spectrum, 20 July 2017
  • In the piece of fabric was a tiny fragment of a circuit board, the FBI says.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Loose wire connected a control panel and circuit board to a motor.
    — Joshua Fechter, ExpressNews.com, 31 Mar. 2020
  • My mechanic says the problem is the circuit board behind the dashboard.
    — Star Tribune, 18 June 2021
  • The new and improved glitter bomb includes a circuit board and four phones that record the sting from all sides and upload footage to the cloud.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Its work space is bland, harshly lit, and strewn with plywood and circuit boards and sensors and joysticks and cameras.
    — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2018
  • Build a robot penguin, a marble run, or a functioning circuit board.
    — Popular Science, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The technology has already been utilized to print a circuit board that was used to power a light bulb.
    — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The back cover had been removed, and the wires had been fused to a top corner of the phone’s circuit board with a soldering iron.
    — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
  • The end goal is to increase the automation even more, and expand it beyond just circuit boards.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 July 2018
  • Replacing the entire circuit board could cost up to $300.
    — Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The problem is that the batteries often don’t get changed and start to corrode, then damage the circuit board.
    — Ben Kuchera, Ars Technica, 7 July 2019
  • That required him to take apart the device internals, find the circuit board, and identify the chips.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Sellers on eBay have listed the game’s circuit boards alone for over $1,000.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • The hacking tool, a custom circuit board known as a modchip, uses off-the-shelf parts that cost around $25.
    — Wired, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Mason brought a laptop, special software, a box of circuit boards and dozens of sockets and screwdrivers.
    — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2019
  • The circuit board then sends readings through Bluetooth low energy.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Nov. 2025
  • That includes the light-emitting diodes, the circuit boards and the durable metal housing that protects the lights in news vans and on film sets.
    — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2025

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