Sentence examples for instead of pecking away from inspiring English sources

And since it is a voice communication device, why not let people speak commands instead of pecking away at the keypad or touchscreen?

But that was in 1954, when people still had hands that were used to gripping pencils instead of pecking out text messages.

After all, the concept is identical — instead of pecking out missive with your thumbs, you sweep them across the keyboard to trace out words and phrases.

A Rutgers University study may suggest that employers may be responsible for your eventual BlackBerry addiction stemming as a result of you pecking away at those keys at all hours of the night.

There's a whole lot of people pecking away at you.

A crunching right through the middle rocked back his opponent's tiring head, but he moved out of reach, pecking away on the back foot.

If the challenges can be overcome, will cancer diagnosis in the future involve giant server farms of birds pecking away at images? "I doubt it," Levenson says.

He's been writing a little ("I'm sort of pecking away at something"), playing guitar (he had a band, Mook), and not inhabiting someone else's head.

This is October 2007?" Maybe, but the idea of a politician pecking away at a cell phone is kind of a silly visual to me.

This sizzling exchange was observed by Nick Hewer, who remarked in the boardroom that Melissa "spent a lot of her time pecking away at Joanna".

People at home furiously pecking away at keyboards instead of taking to the streets.