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Recent Examples of push buttonOur audio expert, Tim Gideon, found that the on-ear push button controls were simple to use and appreciated the option to customize long presses from ANC-transparency mode toggling (the default setting) to summoning voice assistants or volume control.—Cierra Cowan, PC Magazine, 13 Aug. 2025 The push button starter provides some race-car flavor.—Josh Max, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025 Though these Hongdae men try to push buttons, Sean Solo’s videos always emphasize how normal Korean men act as well, which is pretty courteous and nice in comparison.—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 5 June 2025 Single spinner wheels at each corner of this upright suitcase push and pull easily with extend and stow handles that lock and unlock with one touch of the push button.—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for push button
Remove the old blades and replace the pair First, press on the release button, which is normally where the arm and the blade connect.
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Keenan Thompson,
USA Today,
18 Sep. 2025
Unlike the Oakley Meta HSTN glasses, the new model contains a button on the underside of its frames so that athletes who wear helmets can more easily capture photos and videos.
And while some are overtly designed for traditional smoking purposes, more subtle iterations can double (and triple) as statement art pieces or decorative trays to hold loose change, keys, and jewelry.
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Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
19 Sep. 2025
In sum, tech companies build a walled garden, lock you in, throw away the key, let the plants die, and then charge you an extortionate rent to live among the rotting remains.
Everything about Baldwin’s style is too much; often one feels, in his diction, his elaborate, Jamesian syntactical structures, his sudden shifts of tone, that if the English language has a volume dial that goes up to ten, Baldwin is hot-wiring a go-around to push it to eleven or twelve.
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Garth Greenwell,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
Zuckerberg also demonstrated how the glasses can play music, with the volume adjustments made by mimicking the turning of a circular dial.
Having sat with Jones in their home studio, Ronson understood the language of digital sound meters, tape machines and knobs and faders, as well as the importance of reading the room.
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