How to Use solder in a Sentence

solder

1 of 2 noun
  • Using a wire cutter, snip each lead just above the mound of solder.
    — Mitch Altman, Popular Mechanics, 2 Sep. 2020
  • As soon as the flux disappears, touch the top of the joint with some solder.
    — Steve Willson, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2018
  • The tool is used to melt solder that, when cooled, will join electrical contacts.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The solder is then melted, bonding the chip to the package.
    — Roel Baets, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
  • There’s a smell in the air right now — solder, espresso and defiance.
    — Bob Bonniol, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
  • On section is intended to put the whiff of solder back in your nostrils.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Aug. 2021
  • Lead can leach into the water from pipes, fixtures or solder in the plumbing.
    — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Even with overhaul, lead can still infiltrate homes with old brass fixtures or lead solder on pipes.
    — Dustin Renwick, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
  • My pop would solder wires to two foot-long metal rods, and then solder battery clips to the other ends.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026
  • More acidic water liberates more lead from pipes, solder, faucets and water heaters.
    — Aaron E. Carroll, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2016
  • And, of course, through older water systems, which can have lead pipes or use pipe solder that contains lead.
    — Molly Rauch, Good Housekeeping, 16 Feb. 2016
  • Then tiny balls of solder, some only tens of micrometers across, are attached to the chips.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Flip-chip technology relies on balls of solder attached to those pads.
    — Roel Baets, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Use solder tags or crimp-on ring connectors screwed into a terminal block and tie the thread onto the loops.
    — Andy Clark, Popular Science, 9 Jan. 2020
  • On April 14, the pair went to an Army base to screen the movie — and to learn from real-life solders.
    — Greg Hanlon, Peoplemag, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Being able to work elbow-to-elbow with skilled artisans like solders and platers is one of the upsides.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The solder inside of Nvidia's power adapter cable can be damaged if the cables are moved or bent too much.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Seven reports have been made about the bottles' bases breaking off, revealing the solder dot.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 28 Nov. 2022
  • That way, both the power and the I/O signals can be attached to solder balls that are placed on the back side.
    — Divya Prasad, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The solder bumps are aligned to corresponding parts of the package, and the two parts are melted together.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Tin the terminals on the back of the socket by heating them with the soldering iron and applying a bit of solder.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The chip is then flipped over so the solder lines up with corresponding pads on the chip’s package (or in our case onto another chip).
    — Roel Baets, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
  • If your car has a copper radiator or heater core, the coolant is contaminated with lead solder.
    — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2017
  • The base of the cups and bottles can break off, exposing a solder dot which contains lead, according to the recall notice.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Jim hangs on gamely as the moment etches its way into his brain, silver-solder connecting the neurons driving his own visions.
    — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • So, the North Carolinian had a jeweler solder both of their wedding rings and create a necklace.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Microscopic voids then build up in the solder beneath the transistors, causing parts to short-circuit or simply to overheat.
    — The Economist, 22 Apr. 2018
  • The latter stacks smaller chips on top of larger ones using what’s called hybrid bonding, which links copper pads on each chip directly without solder.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Dec. 2023
  • And to make installation easier, join the new sillcock to the existing piping with push-fit solder-less fittings.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2021
  • This approach is cheaper than solder, but less efficient at transferring heat away from the CPU cores.
    — Mark Walton, Ars Technica, 4 July 2017

solder

2 of 2 verb
  • Wires are soldered onto the circuit board.
  • Cut the relief valve tube to length and solder a male adapter to one end.
    — Steve Willson, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2018
  • Other pipes are made of clay or iron but may have lead soldering between the joints.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
  • One of the easiest is to find a buddy that already knows how to solder.
    — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Pairing the two is like trying to solder copper wires to fast-twitch muscle fibers.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 13 Apr. 2026
  • My pop would solder wires to two foot-long metal rods, and then solder battery clips to the other ends.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The sheet was cut into three parts, which were soldered together, hammered, and rolled thin again.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The final board is not complex and designed as a double sided board which is easy to solder.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2024
  • To install these unions, simply clean all the tubing ends and fittings as before, add some flux and solder the parts.
    — Steve Willson, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2018
  • In the Blackwell system, those components are soldered to the board.
    — Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The impression is that the Chinese are soldering all this somewhere in the garage.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • It's been banned from use in paint, gasoline and food cans for decades, and it's no longer used in plumbing materials and solder for pipes.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Layers of silver, gold, copper, and a sheet of silver/gold alloy were soldered together in a thin sheet.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 28 Jan. 2020
  • In a series of tests, the new robot could jump up to 20 times its body length, climb walls, solder a circuit board and escape from a mock prison.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2023
  • His grandmother—who spent years working in the aerospace industry—showed him how to solder joints and make harnesses.
    — Liz Ohanesian, Los Angeles Magazine, 13 Apr. 2018
  • His father worked in landscaping; his mother soldered computer chips.
    — Steve Miletich, The Seattle Times, 9 July 2018
  • Caged in by chain-link, the overpass bridge on the interstate, red eye of October sun open, soldering all the straight lines of his body out.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Poking at the dirt outside of the home with a sharp metal rod soldered to a handle, Tello wiggled the rod around, pulled it out, and smelled it.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 27 Feb. 2026
  • His father, a land surveyor, taught him how to repair electronics by soldering the radios.
    — Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The PCBs used in these projects have through-holes that are designed to have component pins and copper wires soldered into them.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2025
  • The team made a video that shows the heat applied by a soldering tip to a sample spreading and dissipating at 100 frames per second.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019
  • McKinney even taught herself soldering for more complex costumes.
    — Eder Campuzano, OregonLive.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • If broken into section, pads are provided so that headers can be soldered in to plug one board behind the other, making a more compact form suited to a desk clock.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2024
  • De Bastiani, De Wolf and colleagues soldered a metal wire on each side of the tandom cells to extend the electrode contacts.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Feb. 2023
  • They will now be soldered together to form a financially rickety public hospital system.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Tiffany-style lamps are made by crimping narrow pieces of copper foil around the edges of the glass pieces, then soldering over the copper on adjoining pieces so the bead of copper holds them together.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
  • That leaves behind whole components previously soldered onto the board, which should be easier to recover.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 31 July 2023
  • If the clasp was soldered or welded to the heavy silver body, contamination from the air could have introduced invisible weaknesses.
    — Eric Sullivan, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Along with the skill itself, soldering is a comparatively inexpensive hobby to get into.
    — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Principato, too, recalls the trial and error of that workshop and the difficulty in learning how to solder wires and components on circuit boards.
    — Kevin Simpson, The Denver Post, 9 June 2017

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