How to Use touch pad in a Sentence

touch pad

noun
  • Press the start button on the touch pad.
  • You are not allowed to use the touch pad or the touch screen function.
    — Lauren Markham, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • To move an app, select its icon and press down on the remote’s touch pad.
    — J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Each earbud has a touch pad that can control calls and sound playback.
    — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 1 Oct. 2020
  • There are small touch pads on the stem of each Pod called Force Sensors.
    — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Those sitting in the café can watch the nightscape change as other visitors use the touch pad.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • From there, swiping across the touch pad on the armrest changes the station — usually.
    — cleveland, 11 Apr. 2020
  • The center console houses a touch pad to control the 7-inch display screen.
    — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2018
  • Expect businesses to start wiping down touch pads and credit card readers a whole lot more.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Most of the phone-app-audio selections are made through a 7-inch touch screen with a touch pad on the shifter console.
    — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 June 2018
  • The touch pad/dial is located on the center console between the front seats.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The belt buckle mouse controller is gone, finally, and the touch pad is better to use while the car is in motion.
    — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • It can be controlled by speaking aloud, tapping a touch pad or projecting a laser display onto the palm of a hand.
    — Photographs and Videos By Kelsey McClellan, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • For example, a touch pad at a transit pay station may see little benefit.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Gone is the big touch pad at the top of the remote, in favor of a new directional pad with actual buttons.
    — Maren Estrada, BGR, 18 July 2021
  • The jury’s still out on a new controller that relies on a touch pad for navigation and other features, though.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2018
  • Still, experts recommend bringing your own to wipe down grocery cart handles, baskets and touch pads at self-checkout kiosks.
    — USA Today, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Even things as elementary as turning on the heated or ventilated front seats requires the touch pad.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Out of the driver’s line of sight and with an idiosyncratic operating system, the touch pad never worked as the new, glanceable screen.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2024
  • The steering wheel, with its floating touch pad on either side of the center, feels different in your hand, comfortable and natural.
    — Scotty Reiss, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Some younger voters don’t do things like write checks the way their parents or grandparents did; many never sign anything beyond scribbling with a finger on a touch pad at a retail counter.
    — Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Sep. 2020
  • The fireplace rotates to provide entry to the room when a member of the family places a hand on a biometric touch pad that recognizes their fingerprints.
    — Jane Margolies, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2024
  • For example, during the Nex’s unveiling, the company showed the second display being used as a rear touch pad for gaming.
    — Sam Byford, The Verge, 11 Dec. 2018
  • The driver can use a touch pad that recognizes handwriting to input telephone numbers, addresses and other commands.
    — Tom Krisher, The Seattle Times, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The power liftgate has a programmable height setting and can be opened one of three ways; a button on the key fob, a button inside the vehicle, or a touch pad on the lower edge of the liftgate.
    — Emma Jayne Williams, star-telegram, 30 Sep. 2017
  • At the Sansan Chicken in Queens, the virtual assistant couldn’t help a reporter order a sandwich without cheese on a touch pad menu.
    — Stefanos Chen, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • There was no starting beep or automatic touch pads or accepted electronic timing or replays, as there are in major swimming competitions now.
    — Frank Litsky, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
  • There looks to be one touch pad on the right controller — by comparison, the Steam Deck has touch pads on both sides — but the back of that right controller also apparently has a wheel.
    — Jay Peters, The Verge, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The 10-inch touch screen is clear and without all the confusing submenus of German luxury, but Cadillac made a misstep by using a touch pad in the center console to control the screen.
    — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Some have two suites, one for elderly parents to age-in-place, as well as steam shower areas with touch pad controls for a TV and a freestanding tub that delivers light, heat and water wellness therapies.
    — oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2021

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