push button

Example Sentences

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The reachability enabled by digital command also produced anxiety—if anyone could gain access to a push button, how could society maintain control over the unskilled, incompetent, or evil-doing controller?

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2022

“Usually older people, they don’t like the push button to start the car,” he said.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2021

“In ’80, there was no push button, come-rescue-me button.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2017

They strapped her in and showed her how to hit the push button in the toy she would hopefully use for at least three or four years.

From Washington Times • Dec. 19, 2016

A person at any one of the stations may originate a call to the main office by inserting his plug in the trunk jack, or pushing his trunk push button.

From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by McMeen, Samuel