Sentence examples for machine lever and 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

How he does it is a bit of a mystery: the piano is, after all, an impersonal machine of levers and hammers.

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.

Dick dropped a dime in a vending machine, pulled the lever, and picked up a bag of jelly beans; munching, he wandered back to the car and lounged there watching the young attendant's efforts to rid the windshield of Kansas dust and the slime of battered insects.

The big voting machines involved levers and the curtain surrounding you would not open if you pressed too many levers (like voting for two candidates for president).

His research group is moving away from the idea of controlling machines with levers and knobs.