How to Use clicker in a Sentence

clicker

noun
  • Then a clicker can be heard, tapping out some sort of code.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2025
  • That handheld clicker tied to his vest?
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Get your credit card ready and your clicker finger poised to shop.
    — Sarah Han, Allure, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Something to do with checking in and a clicker.
    — Alessandra Codinha, InStyle, 3 June 2026
  • Prepare for more of those clicker sounds bouncing around your brain.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 27 Jan. 2023
  • For pen clickers or even those that just like to fidget with different items.
    — Chevall Pryce, Houston Chronicle, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Claire came very close to following Mann’s clicker cue to hop on a stool.
    — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Good fishing guides keep count—and keep legal—by using a clicker like this one.
    — Outdoor Life, 21 May 2020
  • The clicks travel outward, bounce off objects and come back to the ears of the clicker.
    — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The trainer clicks a clicker, the rat steps aside and gets his reward--a piece of banana.
    — Smriti Rao, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2010
  • But the active areas of the two clickers don't extend far enough down the mouse (for my hand, at least).
    — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 27 June 2026
  • At the front of the store, employees use a clicker to track how many customers are allowed in.
    — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
  • Instead, use a clicker device or pencil and paper and the five-hash-mark method.
    — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The left and right clickers now loop around the scroll wheel to offer more area for your pointer and middle finger.
    — PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2025
  • My father hates the clickers, all of them, without exception.
    — Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
  • Prison guards snap their fingers or use special metal clickers to warn everyone around to clear the path.
    — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • Has adjustment settings on the cord and also a camera clicker.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Control the narrative with the clicker.
    — Rich Bornstein, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Fallon shared a photo of the pair behind the scenes, with Ritter in full clicker makeup.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Tragically, the two are attacked and bitten by clickers after a night of fun.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Ackman strode onstage in a stylish black suit, one hand in his pocket and the other holding a slide-clicker remote.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2017
  • Before a treat comes out, the camera emits a clicking sound, modeled after a training clicker.
    — Kayla Matthews, WIRED, 12 May 2018
  • The clickers, first seen in Episode 2, mean almost certain death and can withstand gunshots to the body.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Between the mouse’s primary clickers is the optical scroll wheel.
    — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
  • An attendant posted near the entrance had a clicker to count visitors.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 6 May 2026
  • As noted earlier, both the left- and right-clickers now come wrapped in imitation leather.
    — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 14 Mar. 2026
  • There’s no track, no clicker, no spectacle — nothing to detract from the raw performance.
    — Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
  • Just like with the clicker, the hand flash needs to occur as soon as the correct behavior occurs for the dog to make the connection.
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Say the command, then use a clicker or a reward word, like bingo, to mark when your dog does the behavior; and give it a treat as a reward.
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Apr. 2021
  • And though the food truck is stationary, its dashboard is packed with tons of hands-on fun including a steering wheel, clicker key and gear shifter.
    — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 21 Dec. 2017

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