Sentence examples for machine lever from inspiring English sources

It may at first glance seem surprising that so many people are willing to keep pulling the slot machine lever and throwing down chips to the point of losing their houses, relationships and more when the odds are so obviously stacked against them.

She then asked me to turn the vending machine lever for her on account of her "bum hand".

My cab driver had tacked the kind of cross-town course that makes every turn feel like a pull on a slot machine lever.

Maybe it can get you there and allow for a few pulls of the slot machine lever... or whatever other moderately priced shenanigans you want to get into at your Vegas bachelorette party.

On Nov. 4, 1930, voters didn't fully grasp the technology: "In a number of instances, instead of pushing down the machine levers, voters marked crosses on the nameplates of the candidates on the machines.

While revelers still fill the streets here and can be found even on a hot summer afternoon pulling slot machine levers, conventioneers are spending much less time in the city and vacationers are shelling out less on restaurants, nightclubs and gambling than they did last year.

Six kinds of voting equipment were in use in the 40 districts: punch-card machines, lever machines, paper ballots, electronic systems and two types of optical-scan machines.

So in 2002, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), which gave incentives to replace punch-card machines and lever machines and authorized $3.9 billion for states to buy new technology, among other things.

The earliest treatise in mechanics, the Mechanical Problems ascribed to Aristotle, begins with problems having to do with a simple machine, the lever.

In Connecticut, Tuesday's election will be the first in which the entire state is voting on optical-scan machines instead of lever machines, but most voting experts say the state is well prepared.

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