The phrase "push the elevator button" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when instructing someone to activate the elevator by pressing the button.
Example: "When you reach the ground floor, please push the elevator button to call it."
Alternatives: "press the elevator button" or "hit the elevator button."
(The robot has no arms, so I was dependent on their good will to push the elevator button).
This forces riders to push the elevator button again if an elevator comes and leaves without them.
Impatient people who push the elevator button repeatedly as if that will make the thing come faster?
It's like when you push the elevator button and nothing happens: you don't know if the elevator is broken or the light is broken.
This summer, I found myself losing my patience with her when she had meltdowns over details I deemed unimportant — her constant need to be the one to push the elevator button, or her wish to wear her sparkly-but-impractical flip-flops instead of her much more reliable sneakers, or her anger if a brother didn't agree with her choice of DVD to watch.
We changed for dinner and walked outside and pushed the elevator button.
Then somebody pushes the elevator button for him, and he and his toddler ride up and home.
When she pushed the elevator button for the 18th floor, the elevator instead went in the other direction, dropping to the basement, she said.
As reading expert Tim Shanahan has observed, teaching such "skills" is like pushing the elevator button twice: it might make you feel better, but it won't make the elevator come any faster.
I just pushed the elevator button with my kids here like I'm new or something.
He pushed the elevator button in Speed and helped set the mood of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive over a decade ago, yet it's in the past few years that Patrick Fischler has truly ingrained himself in the on-screen landscape.
