Sentence examples for lever down from inspiring English sources

'Lever down, down; Lever down, down' chanted the crowd and emergency meetings were held all over the place.

Push the lever down and the sculpture comes flying off and crashing to the ground.

Whiskey refers to rye bread, since rye is a type of whiskey (and apparently too easy to confuse with "white" when shouted over a busy breakfast rush); down is toast, since it requires pressing the lever down on the toaster.

She resolved not to be intimidated by several messages stenciled around her compartment – a roomette, they called it – but when she went to bed the night before, she succeeded in folding herself up into the wall because she had ignored an injunction to PULL THIS LEVER DOWN OVER BRACKETS, a situation remedied by the porter to her embarrassment, as her habit was to sleep only in pajama tops.

But when the button shone green and the monkeys were trained to hold the lever down, they received significantly less water--a small reward.

Focusing the door opening task as shown in Figure 14, motion of the hand pose in the door opening, it requires motions that revolving the door lever down, rotating around the pivot of the lever, and pulling the door rotating around the pivot of the door.

They've already levered down because they didn't lever up all that much.

As interest rates across the economy are set in relation to gilt yields, quantitative easing acts as an extra lever pushing down borrowing costs.

"The sheriff pulled the lever and down dropped Victor," recalled John M. Ely Jr., an 82-year-old former Iowa state senator who witnessed the 1963 execution.

What I like best about the DIY Book Scanner is the motion of its operation: a lever, pressed down, forces the pages of the book flat and triggers a photo.

Move the lever arm down toward the neck of the bottle.