Sentence examples for pulling a switch from inspiring English sources

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

They like to gather in a physical space with other people, they like to make a physical gesture, an action, making a cross, pulling a switch, making a hole in the ballot.

It seems to me it was probably put in by some of the old-timers in the league to prevent someone from pulling a switch.

One of the big problems with the Occupy movements' focus on democracy, as important as it may be, is that democracy is ultimately a process in which people exercise small bits of power by doing very little (pulling a switch in a booth); and even then, only to get a soft voice in a frequently calcified government bureaucracy.

She'd pull a switch off a tree and just switch the backs of my legs.

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.

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