Sentence examples for zapper from inspiring English sources
The word "zapper" is usable in written English and is well written
It can be used to refer to a device that emits energy or signals, often in a context related to electronics or entertainment. Example: "He used the remote zapper to change the channel without getting up from the couch." Alternatives include "remote control" or "controller."
noun
A remote control for a television.
- The news is starting on the other channel
It was Stephen's secretary Judy Fella who was instrumental in bringing in a Californian computer firm that had a computer system with a zapper that Stephen could [use to] bring up letters on a computer screen.
In a country where most voters now have more than 50 TV channels to choose from, Joanne Public tends to reach for the zapper each time a political ad appears.
The dead cow head being eaten by flies immolating themselves against an electric zapper leaks its odour into Mr Livingstone's one-time panelled dining room.
But the impact of this is being diluted by the multiplication of television channels, growing hostility to negative advertising and the remote-control zapper.
The all-ultrasonic approach is also quicker because the image can be examined directly by the operator of the zapper, rather than being laboriously constructed from multiple slices inside a computer.
Combine the zapper with a decent electromagnetic cockroach expeller, and even the most fastidious individual should sleep peacefully.
If I could just zap Isis cleanly and efficiently, in Syria or Iraq (my magic zapper has an unerring target-locator), and totally eliminate them in a puff of vapour, I would do it.
But the imaginary zapper, satisfying though it is, doesn't always achieve the desired results.
Marina Lewycka has an imaginary zapper but our political leaders have real ones.
I have a little zapper that I carry around with me that helps ease my way through life.
The thing about my pocket zapper is that it has no sense of history.
