pushbutton

Example Sentences

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The effect was very "analog." It reminded me of switching channels on a monaural, pushbutton car radio, or watching a theatrical documentary shot on film.

From Salon • May 23, 2011

What Ma Bell did not anticipate, however, was that the pushbutton phone would become America's newest musical instrument.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week, as over 100,000 people trooped through Manhattan's Grand Central Palace at the National Business Show, first since 1941, it appeared that the pushbutton world had already closed in on businessmen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Michael L. Dertouzos, Director Laboratory for Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Mass. More chilling than the vision of a pushbutton life was your litany of the "benign" influence of new-generation computers.

From Time Magazine Archive

A broad, dingy street, lined by shabby brown houses and pushbutton apartments, led in a gentle descent toward the river.

From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher