Sentence examples for number punching from inspiring English sources

This involved calling a 1-800 number, punching 1 for "yes" and 3 for "no".

Then there are the persnickety docking stations, which can require missile-code-like number punching and a well-timed heave.

During a game, CellBucks customers refer to a printed menu and call a toll-free number, punching in codes for the desired goods, as well as their seat locations.

After the dust settled four vehicles carrying black-masked special forces drove out of the museum entrance, as one of their number punched the air defiantly to applause from Bardo residents and cries of "Long Live Tunisia!".

The safest and most efficient payment method, from the retailer's point of view, is a debit card combined with a PIN (personal identification number) punched by the customer into an online device at the point of sale.

Some came with scraps of personal possessions including John Shaw's homemade identity tag – he had worked in London as an embosser – with his name and number punched into the metal, made into a bracelet with a cheap watch chain.

(A further shortening is 9/11, as in "The New York Times 9/11 Neediest Fund," which is also a play on the number punched on a telephone keyboard for emergencies).

After the dust settled, vehicles carrying black-masked special forces drove out of the museum entrance, as one of their number punched the air defiantly to applause from Bardo residents and cries of "Long Live Tunisia!".The Tunisian public remains supportive of the security forces, not least in rural areas.

Koyomejian called the pager number, punched in his own return number and hung up.

Let me get you connected". She slides the house phone toward her, looks up Becky's room number, punches it in, then hands me the receiver.

She slides the house phone toward her, looks up Becky's room number, punches it in, then hands me the receiver.