Sentence examples for pointer on a from inspiring English sources

Leave your hand-controlled pointer on a menu item for a few seconds, and it opens.

Changes in the frequency to be measured cause a change in this balance that can be measured by the deflection of a pointer on a scale.

The ball accelerated, stopped short, flew, bounced off the sky, rushed along the ground, hesitated, changed its angle, did an about-face, then whizzed in the opposite direction, seemingly spontaneously, like the pointer on a Ouija board.

Beer built a device that would enable the country's citizens, from their living rooms, to move a pointer on a voltmeter-like dial that indicated moods ranging from extreme unhappiness to complete bliss.

A display may be the position of a pointer on a dial, a light flashing on a control panel, the readout of a digital computer, the sound of a warning buzzer, or a spoken command issuing from a loudspeaker.

Shining a laser pointer on a pull-down projection screen, Ms. Crotty reminded the students that it was legal to ride with one headphone in, but not both ("there's so much on the street that you want to hear"), and that riders must always yield to pedestrians ("even when they're crossing against the light and being super annoying").

The N.B.A. adopted the 3-pointer on a one-year trial because executives from the A.B.A. pushed for it after the leagues merged.

Durant misses a three pointer on one end... and then Deron Williams misses a three pointer and then Argentina gets the ball back.

While docked in Hankou, Judy took a liking to another Pointer on board a French gunboat Francis Garnier.

On one play, Best hit a 3-pointer on a third chance after two misses by Miller.

Prigioni started the fourth by making a 3-pointer on a pick-and-roll to extend the Knicks' lead to 75-66.