Sentence examples for turn to a computer from inspiring English sources

What happens to school libraries when students find it more natural to turn to a computer screen than a book?

Every time I turn to a computer to do a task, I fleetingly recall that I can't run the habitat computer network by myself.

The doctor turned to a computer and tapped savagely on the keyboard for a few moments.

He turned to a computer program to give him movement ideas, and in "Biped," from 1999, he used "motion capture".

It also turned to a computer model to determine what parts of the country might have a hospitable climate for the species.

When researchers at SmithKline Beecham P.L.C., a pharmaceutical manufacturer, went looking for an enzyme that sliced up a protein into toxic fragments within the brains of Alzheimer's patients, they too turned to a computer.

So Shapiro and colleagues turned to a computer and cellphone program called Check that lets users record all the money they spend.

To find out if this solar barbecue would sear any nearby habitable worlds, researchers led by astrobiologist Antigona Segura of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City turned to a computer model.

To find out, Ralf Sommerfeld, a Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, Germany, and colleagues turned to a computer-based game.

Why not turn to a high-speed computer?

With Mac laptops in particular, consumers increasingly use phones or tablets for quick tasks and only turn to a full-fledged computer when they need extra horsepower.