Sentence examples for pull a chain from inspiring English sources

For the full treatment, stand up, pull a chain and blast yourself with a shower of ice-cold water.

The AFL's tactics around the Whitfield issue bring to mind the findings from researchers at Northwestern University that rhesus monkeys would starve themselves rather than pull a chain that administers an electric shock to a companion.

The impulse to avoid harm, which gives trolley ponderers the willies when they consider throwing a man off a bridge, can also be found in rhesus monkeys, who go hungry rather than pull a chain that delivers food to them and a shock to another monkey.

And in a now-famous 1964 study, psychiatrist Jules Masserman found that rhesus monkeys refused to pull a chain that would deliver them food if doing so would hurt another monkey.

Is the toilet really flushed by pulling a chain on a wood tank on the wall?

There, still wearing her space suit, she pulled a chain to start the decontamination, or "decon," cycle.

On a recent visit, a vendor named P. Kumar pulled a chain of rose petals and small white jasmine blossoms from a cane basket.

GEOFFREY SMYSER, a lanky bartender in skinny jeans and a flannel shirt, pulled a chain dangling from the ceiling of Stinkers Truck Stop, a bar fashioned as a Midwestern 1970s trucker lounge, in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Dickinson trains rats to press a lever for food and perform another action (usually pulling a chain) for water.

Mr. Gluck pulls a chain-link fence between the bike shop and the bar area at 8 p.m., separating repairs from revelry both physically and psychologically, and the bar closes at 11 p.m. "Also, we're not allowed to do rentals, and we cannot hire a bouncer," he said.

Take "Maine @ Home" where visitors are invited to sit in a 1960s living room and catch up on period TV shows, pull a flush-toilet chain to hear its rush of water, and step onto a lakefront porch complete with the sounds of boat motors and crying loons.