Sentence examples for to press something from inspiring English sources

But, when he continued to press, something else would emerge.

And it's not like a road car; they are having to press something in the region of 50 to 100 kilograms through.

The buttons on pedestrian crossings, the "close door" buttons in elevators – often these don't actually work at all – in reality, everything is automated – but they're either designed into the system, or left in place after being made obsolete, because people feel better if they get to press something.

When the phone is acting up it gets hard to press some buttons and once you press them a few times you suddenly enter a flurry of menus and screen changes thanks to the OS thinking you meant to press something else.

I'd only ever touched MEAT rubber stuff once before this morning, when a package that enclosed a maxi dress, complete with thong, bra and floor-length mask/bib arrived in the office, and I felt sad that maybe I'd never be able to press something so cool, smooth and faintly smelling of sweat to my face again.

But he was the first one to be injured seriously enough to press for something to be done.

But the second America is right to press for something more from Muslim Americans — particularly from figures like Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam behind the mosque — than simple protestations of good faith.

Instead of using their leverage to press for something like the Responsible Estate Tax Act, they're allowing Lincoln and Baucus to dominate the stage.

"I'm not naive on that point, but what's the alternative to trying to press for something different here?" Sarbanes asked.

So she took this to a librarian, and the librarian looked at it and went to the computer, and pressed something or other, and all these titles came up, all these books, because this was only ten years ago.

Then I was told to please sit in a chair by an open window while he pressed something marked "Seat Ejector Button".