Sentence examples for pull a switch from inspiring English sources

"In this day and age, all one has to know how to do is press a button or pull a switch.

With no time to warn them, your only option is to pull a switch and divert the cart on to a different track, which only has one person standing on it.

The car suddenly instructs Commander Pott to pull a switch which causes Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang to sprout wings and take flight over the stopped cars on the road.

When Molluck finds out what happened and decides to flood the entire factory with poisonous gas, Abe races to the Boardroom and uses the Shrykull's power to destroy the Glukkon executives there and delay his sudden capture long enough to pull a switch that terminates the gas.

He pulled a switch, and the typewriter on Mark XI typed out "Your move".

In his absence, the new builders pulled a switch, believing symphonies would always draw a larger audience.

Over those two years, he urinated into a monitor's cup 75 times -- always his urine, never pulled a switch.

Mr. Hall, 52, has said he was the civilian who pulled a switch that set off the emergency surfacing operation.

After playing the same old shit for 40 years my soul had pulled a switch on me.

Once we're comfortable with these ground rules (innocent man, up against a ruthless gangster, using his wits to stay alive) Perry pulls a switch.

What if, rather than pulling a switch, you stop the mine cart by pushing one particularly large person in its way?