Sentence examples for push a lever from inspiring English sources

When a green light turned on, they could push a lever 10 times to get a THC injection.

According to B. F. Skinner, children learn words and grammar by being praised for correct usage, much as lab animals learn to push a lever that supplies them with food.

For example, macaque monkeys are also highly social animals, and scientists put them in cages and taught them how to push a lever so that they could get cocaine.

When rats are allowed to push a lever in exchange for a mild current that produces a "high" in the "pleasure centers," they will press the lever up to 7,000 times per hour.

A Columbia University study published in November in Science Advances showed that rats exposed to alcohol were far more likely than other rats to push a lever that released cocaine.

"Water: H2O = Life " is, paradoxically, somewhat dry, relying on text panels and interactive exhibits in which you press a button (to move a virtual polar bear across the melting ice pack) or push a lever (to dam and then free a model river).

One pushed a lever in one direction, and a metal stopper seated itself in the drain.

The great-grandfather pushed a lever on the motor and the skiff slowly gained speed.

As soon as White makes a move, he pushes a lever that stops his time clock, and starts Black going.

It is a time-saving device for getting any of your twenty-five most often dialled numbers by merely pushing a lever.

The animals pushed the lever about as often as other monkeys pushed a lever to get cocaine, but Dr. Goldberg said that did not necessarily mean marijuana is as addictive as cocaine in people.