The phrase "punch the keys" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a common expression that means to press keys on a keyboard forcefully or aggressively. You can use it anytime you are describing someone typing quickly or with force. Example: "She angrily punched the keys on her keyboard, frustrated with the slow progress of her essay."
Many people use a single thumb to punch the keys while grasping the phone with the same hand.
Aside from offering advice on the physicality of the typewriter — "Punch the keys hard!" — and writing a daily prompt to counteract the terror of a blank page, Ms. Stein waits for people to seek her out.
It looks like a vision receiver used to, only it's got keys instead of dials and you punch the keys for what you wanna get... you punch 'Sally Hancock's Phone' an' the screen blinks an' sputters an' you're hooked up with the logic in her house an' if somebody answers you got a vision-phone connection.
Don't punch the keys on your keyboard or push any other buttons with more force than needed to get the job done.
My daughter, who was 8, picked up the extension downstairs and started punching the keys.
Workers punching the keys might be on a three-shift system, and be paid as little as $120 a year.
Take the electric switches with controls molded in the shape of their users' hands, and the cellphone that's operated by pushing fingers through holes on the keypad, thereby "reaching out" in a joyous, optimistic gesture, rather than dourly punching the keys.
Bedidjo's fury grew as he punched the keys a day later.
His outrage simmered in his spleen and surged through his veins, collecting in his fingertips until it pushed his pen across paper and punched the keys of his typewriter.
He said an employee punched the key to print labels and put the labels the machine printed on the packages.
The only way TDC can be sure of catching them is to load the software onto a phone and punch the phone keys over and over again, following a lengthy script of at least 200 instructions.
