Sentence examples for lever-operated from inspiring English sources

It all but defined the lever-operated voting machines in use for decades.

We keep hearing that the city's old lever-operated voting machines will be replaced by more modern equipment next year.

The old mechanical lever-operated machines did not allow votes for more than one candidate for the same office.

In 1892, Lockport, N.Y., held the first public election using a lever-operated machine, made by a Rochester safemaker, Jacob H. Myers, according to Sequoia Pacific Voting Equipment.

More compact and cheaper by far than gangly lever-operated wine bottle openers, the new Zyliss model, a translucent plastic cylinder, is a paragon of efficiency.

The lever-operated machines once made by companies like Shoup and Sequoia Pacific are still used by 18percentt of American voters.

The term is a holdover from when machines were lever operated.

An antiquated lever operated by air pressure is there to summon a lavish Victorian breakfast from below stairs, as the sensuous autumn morning fragrance from the phlox and the hebes in the walled gardens drifts into the room.

A lever operated a powerful fan and a suction hole slid open: the air stream carried the waste away.

The weeder has a foot-operated lever so there is no bending; $25.95 from garettwade.com or (800) 221-2942.

One of his ideas was to produce a guitar with a finger-operated lever that would be the equivalent of the sustain pedal on the piano.