pressed down

Example Sentences

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Instead, she put on Bruce Springsteen's Streets Of Philadelphia, dialled up the keyboard's "synth strings" setting, and pressed down two keys.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

The device pressed down with such force and grabbed so much that rocks became wedged around the rim of the lid.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2023

The incident occurred Tuesday morning at around 9:30 a.m. after the “Pulp Fiction” actor mistakenly pressed down on the accelerator instead of the brakes, causing her to steer into a building structure, according to LASD.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2023

I pressed down on a metal button toward the front of the device to turn it on.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023

Lil with a kerchief on when I came in, which she pressed down, dragging her tubes up with her arms, pressing down the kerchief so that I couldn’t see that she had no hair.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt