What is "sockets"

Usage examples of "sockets".

Other electrical contacts had been pasted over the mastoids, or perhaps plugged into previously implanted sockets, and a violet light was blinking on a small machine.

His eyes, so long dry and frozen in place, would not turn in their sockets, so he had to turn his head.

Sharindala trembled all over, and for a long time blue-gray eyes and dark points of light in the sockets of a fleshless skull stared into each other.

He could detect no spy circuits, no insidious network of wires, no sockets lurking to suck in his soul.

Atop the walls to each side, they were spaced at intervals of no more than three feet, each sitting on its own square of lichen-splotched stone, each clean of growth, looking like so many finials with eye sockets and toothy grins.

It had been body shots, leaving the heads more or less intact as trophies, though the gaping eye sockets showed the birds had blinded them first.