Sentence examples for switch the thing from inspiring English sources

But the systems, like those on other cars, are so intrusive — beeping if your tires accidentally brush a lane marker — that you tend to switch the thing off and lose the potential benefit.

Instead, he asks for Jack's help to switch the thing on and Jack is all, "yeah, sure, we're friends, after all", even when the computer suggests there's a "slight anomaly" (have none of these guys even played Half-Life?).

It is driven by an Arduino microcontroller which is also in charge of handling all the other 'physical' inputs like switching the thing on and off.

With the Wii U for my money, the best of the current crop of consoles you know that within minutes of switching the thing on, you're going to be having fun.

Unless you're expecting a birth or a death imminently, the only acceptable thing to do is to switch the bloody thing off and stick it in the cloakroom.

Mind you, the controls are so complicated I could hardly find out where you were meant to switch the whole thing on.

If you've put together your own PC before, chances are you've had to dip into the BIOS to change a few things around, switch the boot priority, things like that.

That app, not surprisingly, was also designed with the idea of connecting to users' set-top boxes or TVs and allowing them to control the TV and switch the channel to things that they find interesting on the app.

That's when I switched the whole thing to Ruby.

But one of the things that we're doing is in the hallway, we are putting up a map by the light switch at school and saying, "do you ever wonder what happens when you turn on the light switch?" So the thing is I think once you connect the dots, people start to think a little bit about it.

Her best way of describing Alex's effect on her is: "It was as though life were a Christmas tree and I'd discovered the hidden switch, the whole thing lighting up in a blaze of color".