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
• There are small touch pads on the stem of each Pod called Force Sensors.
  — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Those sitting in the café can watch the nightscape change as other visitors use the touch pad.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Each earbud has a touch pad that can control calls and sound playback.
  — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 1 Oct. 2020
• From there, swiping across the touch pad on the armrest changes the station — usually.
  — cleveland, 11 Apr. 2020
• Igloohome made a very flat, sleek touch pad with a hidden keyhole that feels very modern.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2020
• The center console houses a touch pad to control the 7-inch display screen.
  — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2018
• 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
• The touch pad/dial is located on the center console between the front seats.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 17 Dec. 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
• 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
• Expect businesses to start wiping down touch pads and credit card readers a whole lot more.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 30 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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
• In addition to the finicky remote touch pad on the center console, the standard 8.0-inch display screen is now a touchscreen, which should help make things a bit more intuitive.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 30 May 2019
• The survey was conducted by live phone call and by automated phone calls using a touch pad response.
  — Mike Cason, AL.com, 3 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• For example, a touch pad at a transit pay station may see little benefit.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 20 Mar. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• To clean screens, touch pads and exteriors, move a flat-weave microfiber cloth in an S pattern, starting from the top corner and zigzagging down to the bottom of the screen to avoid streaks and to cover larger areas, Maker says.
  — Helen Carefoot, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024