Sentence examples for thumb switch from inspiring English sources

Other goodies include a Compact Flash slot, a bonus 8 megabytes of backup memory and a left-side thumb switch for scrolling lists.

In the Lion Air crash, pilots used the thumb switch more than two dozen times to try to override the system.

John Cox, an aviation safety consultant and a former 737 pilot, said pilots are highly likely to use the thumb switch to extend the 40-second window to several minutes.

The report states that 30 seconds before the plane crashed, there were two attempts to bring the nose of the plane up using thumb switches on the pilots' control columns.

Like Tiptronic units found on Porsche sports cars, manual shifting using the thumb switches works whether the car is in manual mode or not, and a display on the dash tells you what gear the Cayenne is in.

Redline doesn't arrive until the tach strikes 7,000, and although the S8 only comes with a five-speed automatic transmission, you can shift it from the steering wheel via tiny thumb switches.

Aiding this response is a six-speed Tiptronic S "manumatic" transmission (standard on both the S and the Turbo) that lets the driver down- or upshift either via the gear selector on the center console or via thumb switches on the wheel.

Switching among the four discrete settings is done with the same left-thumb switch that controls the turn signals, and it's easy to make changes on the fly, even while cruising down the highway.

Then, holding the handle over the feeder, open the thumb-switch and let the seed funnel down the handle.

Just as I pressed my thumb to switch to "the real world", I caught the familiar voice of a newsman and realised I was in the appalling real world of Tuesday September 11 , 2001 a date that for Americans will live in infamy, along with the memories of Pearl Harbor, December 7 , 1941 and November 22, 1963, the grievous day of President Kennedy's assassination.

I just pressed my thumb to the off switch and broke the connection.