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Example Sentences
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She jabbed at the call button for the elevator.
From Literature
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Now I drift over to the counter displaying boring shirtwaists: rows and rows of white blouses with every imaginable variation of button or no button, lace or pleating.
From Literature
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Putting the monarch through his paces, the 22-year-old explained: "First, you load up the tracks and then play this one. There are so many buttons. Once you know what to do, it's easy."
From BBC
Taylor wore the coat fully buttoned up, ready to throw it off for a dramatic reveal later in the evening.
From Los Angeles Times
On a surface level, boost buttons and extra electrical energy smack of computer games - hence Verstappen's remark about Mario Kart, the second time he had used the analogy in four days in Shanghai.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.