How to Use coaxial cable in a Sentence

coaxial cable

noun
  • Physical phone, coaxial cable, or fiber optic hookups are rare in the country.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Cox internet is powered by fiber, but connected via a coaxial cable line.
    — Kara McGinley, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
  • But Northwood could not decode the message due to a coaxial cable being plugged into the wrong port.
    — ArsTechnica, 11 June 2025
  • Simply branching the thick coaxial cable wasn't possible; that would do bad things to the data signals.
    — Iljitsch Van Beijnum, Ars Technica, 29 June 2023
  • Internet is powered by fiber but connected by a coaxial cable.
    — Kara McGinley, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
  • This can be accomplished via a coaxial cable, an ethernet cable, or even through your home's electrical wiring.
    — Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Connect it to your TV with a coaxial cable, which comes with the antenna, and a nearby outlet.
    — Alicia Kortendick, cleveland, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Sometimes your site will also have a coaxial cable connection to hook your trailer up to cable TV.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Ochoa-Lopez’s body was found in a garbage can outside the Figueroa home on May 14 with the coaxial cable used to strangle her still around her neck.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 14 June 2019
  • Prosecutors allege Clarisa Figueroa strangled her with a coaxial cable and cut the infant from her womb.
    — Diane Herbst, PEOPLE.com, 19 July 2019
  • Server racks house obsolete coaxial cable boxes, displayed as if in a museum, next to today’s fiber-optic boxes.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Due to a faulty communication coaxial cable connector, the rearview camera image may not appear on the display.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 23 June 2023
  • The administration said the rearview cameras have a solid core coaxial cable used to send the feed from the rearview camera to the vehicle's center display.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Delivers fast download speeds using coaxial cables.
    — Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The speeds were delivered over a hybrid fiber-cable network, with the coaxial cable providing the final connection into the home.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The cable industry has abused geographic monopolies to raise prices almost since the first coaxial cables were strung on telephone poles.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Fiber optic cable, in my opinion, is more fragile than traditional solid-copper coaxial cable.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 10 May 2025
  • Cable – Cable internet service comes from the same coaxial cable network that is used with cable television.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Using coaxial cables rather than radio waves would allow faster transmission of data and limit interference.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Nov. 2023
  • After plugging your gateway in and connecting the coaxial cable, connect a computer to the device with an ethernet cable.
    — Peter McPherson, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Uses coaxial cables, offers reliable speeds but slower uploads.
    — Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Unfortunately, doing it right can increase the price of that outdoor antenna well beyond $20 and the cost of coaxial cable.
    — Ron Hurtibise, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Cable internet delivers service through the same coaxial cables that bring cable TV into homes.
    — Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
  • But connecting them all by coaxial cable to control and readout electronics, which work at room temperature, would be impossible.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
  • In the case of a coaxial cable, the dielectric is usually chosen such that a 50Ohm resistor will match the properties of the cable.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Police previously said that Clarisa Figueroa used a coaxial cable to strangle Ochoa-Lopez and then cut the baby from her womb.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Typically, that's the black box with a coaxial cable going into it, and the Verizon or Comcast logo somewhere.
    — Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 15 Oct. 2018
  • In a token bus LAN, a coaxial cable connects all the network’s computers, but the wiring doesn’t control the order in which the computers pass the token.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Around him, an army of electricians run BX and coaxial cable in open walls, contractors balance on stepladders, white couches are still wrapped in plastic, bathrooms are unfinished.
    — Abe Beame, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Spectrum pros and cons Spectrum and Xfinity internet use the same type of connection, primarily coaxial cables.
    — Kara McGinley, USA Today, 1 July 2025

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