Sentence examples for your finger down from inspiring English sources
Hold your finger down on a word for its dictionary definition.
You click on the Home button and hold your finger down for a few seconds.
To return to a saved draft, hold your finger down on the compose button.
If you hold your finger down on the lollipop, the entire screen will change.
On the iPhone, you summon this list by dragging your finger down from the top of the screen.
In theory, you select text by holding your finger down on a word, then dragging apart the handles that appear.
On the Kindle Fire HD, swipe your finger down on the screen to get to the settings area and tap More.
You can tap the notification box to view the corresponding post or message, or you can hold your finger down and swipe to dismiss all of them simultaneously.
But if you slide your finger down and then across, you can move at different speeds, allowing you to advance or rewind with increasingly fine control.
For example, to remove or rearrange apps, you hold your finger down on one app icon until all icons begin to pulse (hello, iPad!).
This can be difficult for non-native speakers to pronounce, and Strč prst skrz krk ("Stick [your] finger down [your] throat") is a Czech tongue twister.
