Sentence examples for kept pressed from inspiring English sources

Historic touches include the hairdryer (the On button has to be kept pressed in, for God's sake).

Museums almost never display them; when the pages are kept pressed open even for a few weeks to expose the paintings, the books could end up permanently curled.

The closed-faced-wheel mole partly offsets this problem, since it can be kept pressed against the face while taking in muck through slots.

Derick Motilall, another driver, said he was eagerly awaiting the new cars, which will introduce a hand accelerator to replace an unwieldy foot-operated system that includes an accelerator, a brake and a dead-man's pedal that must always be kept pressed to the floor.

This feature represents the time that the key keeps pressed and is also named by some authors as dwell time [38].

Bair's strategy is simple, and it also has the virtue of being humane: modify mortgages by cutting the interest rate, the loan amount or both to reduce monthly payments and keep pressed borrowers in their homes.

The craft never hovers more than a few meters above the ground by design and there's an unfortunately named dead man's switch he has to keep pressed at all times to continue operation.

Six mothers who paid for Cooper's services said she made promises that she couldn't keep, pressed them into spending money or sold them clothing that was not custom-made by the designer.

Budget tip: In Thornton Wilder's Theophilus North, the main character has only one suit that he has to keep pressed every night between his bedspring and mattress, to keep it unwrinkled and clean looking.

The company has historically kept press at arm's length, typically communicating over the phone rather than in person or through events, though it did hold this meeting between NY press and Uber execs.

He keeps press and television at arm's length and runs the least leaky White House in recent memory.