How to Use switch on in a Sentence

switch on

verb
  • In the distance, a light switched on.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026
  • My mind is not (switched on) anymore.
    — Sam Lee, New York Times, 27 May 2026
  • The good-enough tool that is already in the building just gets switched on.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • At minimum, dim your brightness and switch on night mode.
    — Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Hedgepeth said switching on screens is a problem against NSU.
    — Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 23 Mar. 2026
  • This was a textbook bait-and-switch on San Diego taxpayers.
    — Johnny Lee Dang, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The Nuggets did a lot of switching on screens, which risked giving up mismatches.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2026
  • For this recipe, simply toss in the ingredients, switch on your slow cooker, and then walk away.
    — Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Each one locks into place for safety via the corresponding small knob switch on the handle.
    — New Atlas, 24 Feb. 2026
  • With a firm hold, the landlady showed me how to switch on the boiler and wait for ten minutes until the hot water came.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • In the mouse study, phytic acid switched on a protein called HDAC3.
    — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 18 June 2026
  • In the mouse study, phytic acid switched on a protein called HDAC3.
    — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026
  • Most outdoor options today are weather-resistant and can be programmed to switch on at dusk.
    — Rachel Silva, Martha Stewart, 6 May 2026
  • There’s a small ceiling fan switch on the motor housing of nearly every model, and odds are good yours is flipped the wrong way right now.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 4 May 2026
  • Being able to switch on the heat when things got chilly in the middle of the night was one of our favorite features on the ID.
    — New Atlas, 26 June 2026
  • Creativity, dating and your mojo are fully switched on.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Ed Bugg, 9th Ward, to flip the switch on that light show at Phillips Park, said Hoesly.
    — Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026
  • Rather than creating a retreat, the room can feel perpetually switched on—and that’s not what most people want at the end of the day.
    — Natasha Bazika, Martha Stewart, 7 Mar. 2026
  • But their strategy was fouled up when the car’s occupants switched on the headlights, throwing a glare up the tote road along which the wardens had planned to sprint.
    — Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Underneath the mesh fabric, the speaker has a flat, plastic base with a physical mute switch on one side near the attached power cord.
    — Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 24 June 2026
  • That could change after workers switch on the interior LED nodes.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Arsenal need to stay switched on mentally for PSG’s short corners.
    — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 31 May 2026
  • Ignore unexpected links, verify everything yourself and make the switch on your terms, not theirs.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Carl Anka Every now and then, you’ll be sat in a room in late afternoon/early evening and someone else will walk in and switch on the light.
    — Ian Irving, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
  • With greater transistor density, electrons have a lot less distance to travel between transistors that switch on and off to process data.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 26 June 2026
  • Fuel switches on commercial planes are physical controls that regulate the flow of fuel to the engines.
    — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 4 May 2026
  • Once the email safely lands in your inbox, the criminal flips a switch on the back end, redirecting that same QR code to a malicious site.
    — Ken Colburn, AZCentral.com, 29 June 2026
  • When a heat wave hits, millions of air conditioners switch on at once, straining the electric grid and driving up the risk of outages — and residents’ power bills.
    — Kiki Sideris, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
  • New merchants run on closed-loop bank transfers that never touch the card networks for 30 to 90 days before any card processing switches on.
    — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • There’s a switch on the keyboard for selecting the connection method and, in Bluetooth mode, the keyboard can be paired with three separate devices.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026

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