ground wire

How to use ground wire in a sentence

• Wicks had merely brought a key, a battery and a ground wire with him and he had cut in on a telephone line.

  A Pagan of the Hills | Charles Neville Buck

• Exhaustion, or an approach to it, discouragement from lack of appreciation, are like a ground wire for loss of power.

  Papers and Proceedings of the Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the American Library Association Held at Ottawa, Canada June 26-July 2, 1912 | Various

• Something was wrong with the machinery, probably a ground wire, broken by the shock.

  Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 | Various

• Then, to the ends of the copper wire of the main coil fasten two wires,—one for the line, the other for the "ground-wire."

  St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 | Various

• I've been thinking over that wireless proposition of yours, and I've got a hunch that your ground-wire isn't anchored right.

  Motor Matt; or, The King of the Wheel | Stanley R. Matthews