BUTTON in a Sentence

Learn BUTTON from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
168 example sentences for BUTTON, such as:
1. I don't care a button about it.
2. The little girl depressed the button.
3. Press the button to start the machine.
4. The top button of his shirt was undone.
5. I pushed the button to turn on the radio.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of BUTTON
button
 v.  lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
 v.  provide with buttons
Classic Sentence: (133 in 9 pages)
1  There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour, if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler's thumb.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  It started because she passed so close to some workmen that our fender flicked a button on one man's coat.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
3  At this dismal intelligence, I twisted the only button on my waistcoat round and round, and looked in great depression at the fire.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
4  After another and a final squeeze with both arms, she got down from the cart and ran away; and, my belief is, and has always been, without a solitary button on her gown.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
5  'Suppose you had never seen me at all,' said Dora, going to another button.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
6  As the boy read, he kept twisting and trying to tear off a button that was nearly off his jacket.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 19
7  His mother had several times taken his hand from it, but the fat little hand went back to the button again.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 19
8  His mother pulled the button off and put it in her pocket.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 19
9  Then there was a laugh; a button and two nuts were found in the box.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 28
10  "Oh, dear me, he's got a button unbuttoned," worried Erik, kneeling.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
11  We were fain to button up our monkey jackets, and hold to our lips cups of scalding tea with our half frozen fingers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
12  No: he don't know what to make of the doubloon; he takes it for an old button off some king's trowsers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
13  "There's a button here, ole sport," said Master Freddie.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
14  "Lights," commanded Master Freddie; and the butler pressed a button, and a flood of brilliant incandescence streamed from above, half-blinding Jurgis.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
15  The butler had paused below but a few minutes to give orders, and then followed them; now he pressed a button, and the hall blazed with light.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  This card allows you to access your money at the touch of a button.
2  Gender issues have become something of a hot button.
3  The top button of his shirt was undone.
4  I pushed the button to turn on the radio.
5  Press the "reload" button on your web browser to refresh the site and get the most current version.
6  Press this button and the video will automatically tune itself to the next channel.
7  Pressing the "Yes" or "No" response button stops the clock.
8  Simply point your camera at the subject and press the button.
9  Just point the camera and press the button.
10  I don't care a button about it.
11  The prime minister pressed the panic button yesterday as Britain's economy plunged deeper into crisis.
12  To see the current document in full-page view, click the Page Zoom Full button.
13  The little girl depressed the button.
14  Abortion is still one of the hot button issues of US life.
15  Press the button to start the machine.