How to Use circuit breaker in a Sentence

circuit breaker

noun
  • If that doesn’t work, make sure your circuit breaker is on.
    — Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Doing so could cause your circuit breaker to trip or even cause a fire.
    — Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2025
  • There's been hope that tech earnings could serve as a circuit breaker.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The lights still must be matched to a circuit breaker with the same three-digit string.
    — Laura Feiveson, Popular Mechanics, 12 June 2020
  • Think of it as a giant version of the circuit breaker in your home.
    — Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2019
  • There must be circuit breakers in place in the event the market swings too wildly.
    — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Unplug the washer or switch off the circuit breaker.
    — Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Sandworm then used the access to open circuit breakers that cut power.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Then, inspect your circuit breaker.
    — Angie Hicks, Boston Herald, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Restore power to the circuit by switching the circuit breaker back on and test the switch.
    — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 17 Oct. 2018
  • An officer reset a circuit breaker in her home that solved the issue.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 21 May 2022
  • To shut off electricity, turn off all small breakers and then shut off the main circuit breaker.
    — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 July 2018
  • The lawsuit mentioned that very cable had detached and caused a circuit breaker to open.
    — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2025
  • For example, some kits have meters that must be wired into a home’s circuit breaker.
    — Nino Paoli, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2025
  • This time out, known as a circuit breaker, kicked in when the shares had fallen 20% from their opening price.
    — Shefali Anand, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2021
  • But circuit breakers can protect people whose home values have surged even if their incomes haven’t.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The Grand Concourse fire was caused by a faulty circuit breaker panel.
    — Lillian Bonsignore, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The new circuit breaker limits are designed to help address this issue.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The circuit breaker box in your new house is in an inconvenient corner of your basement.
    — Laura Feiveson, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2020
  • This in turn can sever the wire or cause a circuit breaker to trip, cutting off electricity.
    — Douglas Starr, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2011
  • My colleague in one of these motions banged into the circuit breaker panel with his backpack.
    — Jamie Turner, cleveland.com, 17 July 2019
  • Go to the main electrical panel and flip off the circuit breaker that’s feeding power to the light switch.
    — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 17 Oct. 2018
  • One of the island’s four main power plants had suffered the failure of a circuit breaker, erupting in flames.
    — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2022
  • Its charging output will depend upon the circuit breaker to which it is attached.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Restore power to the switch by flipping on the circuit breaker (or replacing the fuse).
    — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 17 Oct. 2018
  • Once the state of Kentucky gives the final go ahead, the two circuit breakers in a box will be flipped and the span will once again sparkle.
    — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Screw your lightbulb back into place and flip the corresponding circuit breaker back on.
    — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Houston replied with a suggestion to pull the circuit breaker for the radar, and then power the system back on, which did the trick.
    — Frank O’Brien, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Their shortage means complaints of sparks or circuit breaker trips in a hospital may go unheeded for a long time.
    — Tabassum Barnagarwala, Quartz, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Then lightning struck a circuit breaker and knocked out power to pumps at Kentucky's largest sewage treatment plant.
    — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 6 Apr. 2018

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