How to Use circuitry in a Sentence

circuitry

noun
  • But the unique look into the circuitry earns it a nod here.
    — John Burek, PC Magazine, 7 June 2026
  • The circuitry kind of stopped and restarted again, and maybe some things got lost.
    — Erin Jensen, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The plastic and circuitry all went straight into the garbage—or the street.
    — National Geographic, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The virus, having hitched a ride on neurons, is then free to move about the brain’s circuitry.
    — NBC News, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Beneath her signature red-and-white dress was a circuitry board on her back.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The circuitry is housed in an aluminum case but there’s no display for showing album art.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The most advanced semiconductors have shrunk a chip’s circuitry to the size of a few atoms.
    — Jiyoung Sohn, WSJ, 28 July 2022
  • The team already knew that retinoic acid can cue the gene circuitry to construct the hindbrain in complex species.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The flip side of the owl inside the entryway reveals the bird as a robot filled with cords and circuitry.
    — Author: Tamara Ikenberg, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 Sep. 2017
  • But their circuitry wouldn’t understand that tender, hearty beef in sauce that lights the mouth ablaze also lights the soul.
    — Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
  • Some are familiar, like the gold and tin in its circuitry and the nickel in its microphone.
    — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • If the saw has a low threshold for thermal cutoff to protect the battery and circuitry, that will shut the saw off.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2022
  • So one replica can make one layer of circuitry for 2,000 wafers.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2025
  • In the original Tron movie, the red circuitry colors meant that the program did not care about the users.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Our bodies have a basic circuitry—the basic push-pull, up-down of how chi, or energy, moves in the body.
    — Abigail Barronian, Outside Online, 1 June 2018
  • The damage could cause a short circuit that, because there’s no fuse in the circuitry, could lead to overheating and a fire.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 2 June 2023
  • All of that degrades the performance of any circuitry built using the technique.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Of course, the real arcades were often dark, cramped, and sweaty, with the odor of overheated circuitry.
    — Michael J. Seidlinger, Wired, 15 Jan. 2022
  • The voyage, the pilgrimage, the vision quest are part of our mental circuitry.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2021
  • But beyond the arch, across a plain of circuitry, a futuristic skyline awaits.
    — Jason Guriel, Longreads, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Components for integrated circuitry for each chip are placed on the wafer, one layer at a time.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 18 Jan. 2022
  • This is true of spacecraft components like computer boards and circuitry, as well as the human body.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 31 Mar. 2026
  • That said, the highs that made it past the circuitry from the second recording almost sounded louder than before.
    — PCMAG, 15 July 2024
  • Heat and humidity can wreak havoc on their circuitry and batterie.
    — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Fitzgerald then designed the circuitry and installed the first 911 system in less than a week.
    — Paul Gattis, AL.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Researchers don’t know how long Sarah will need to have the device in her skull, or if depression circuitry in the brain changes over time.
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 6 Oct. 2021
  • With just n-type devices to work with, Myny and his colleagues have to devise a different kind of circuitry.
    — Rachel Courtland, IEEE Spectrum, 21 June 2017
  • It is also used in areas like lithography, which is key for printing the intricate circuitry of a chip.
    — Arjun Kharpal,dylan Butts, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Never immerse the base of your slow cooker in any liquid; this will damage the circuitry of the unit and can be very dangerous.
    — Samantha Hunter, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Feb. 2022
  • With the treatment, wires go into the deep brain structures that are involved in the circuitry that produce the tics, to try to bring some relief.
    — David Begnaud, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2022

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