alligator clip in a sentence

Examples

1. Mueller Planetarium was a gift to the university from Ralph S . Mueller, a Cleveland industrialist and inventor of the alligator clip.
2. Using tiny alligator clips to hold the tissue, they tunneled around the top of the stomach, being careful not to nick the spleen.
3. There are many types of name tag backings, including magnetic backings, locking pins, swivel clips, military clutch pins, alligator clips, and cell phone attachments.
4. Agents got court orders ( we hope ! ), climbed a pole, and put alligator clips on the wires that led to the subject's phone.
5. To test a single-pole wall switch, for example, attach the alligator clip to one screw terminal and touch the metal probe to the other terminal.
6. School board member Bill Keever said he believes that he also was taped; alligator clips and wires were found attached to phone lines outside his home.
7. Beige boxes can be usually constructed with easily available materials, such as a simple " POTS " telephone, a soldering iron, and a pair of alligator clips.
8. For the demonstration, Myers and Officer Tom Burns attached alligator clips to Mack and Kerlikowske, one near their upper backs and the other near their belt lines.
9. He has been known to employ objects such as a library card, rubber eraser, springs, hand-held electric fans, alligator clips, and common office supplies in playing the guitar.
10. He once shut himself inside a freezer, to prove he could withstand the cold; he clamped an alligator clip on to his tongue, to show he could withstand pain.