How to Use cursor in a Sentence

cursor

noun

• Why face the blank page and the blinking cursor?
  — Charles Yu, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026
• Move your cursor to that area and click on your device’s name.
  — Toby Grey, BGR, 31 Aug. 2022
• Her pupil acts much like the cursor and mouse to work the software.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2019
• Because they were robbed at cursor point.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
• And yes, even a cowboy-hat cursor.
  — New Atlas, 24 Feb. 2026
• This is a measure of how many pixels the mouse cursor can move across the screen.
  — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
• The harder each subject squeezed, the faster the cursor moved.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2014
• The glove reduces the friction on the tablet, so your cursor won’t slide as much.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 24 Nov. 2021
• Hold Ctrl and press the left or right arrows to move the cursor word-by-word.
  — Jared Newman, PCWorld, 21 Apr. 2021
• That’s done via a minigame where players move a cursor along a grid and to an endpoint.
  — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026
• The buy button does not exist yet, but this does feel like the pre-cursor to that move.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• When your mouse cursor is on the iPad’s screen, your keyboard will work there as well.
  — Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2022
• Other peers use a magnetic cursor on the tablet that moves as the ball does.
  — Russell Leung, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2025
• Hold Ctrl or Cmd with the above trick to delete the whole word in front of the cursor.
  — Jared Newman, PCWorld, 21 Apr. 2021
• The bigger issue even than the huge cursor is the button choice.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
• To do that, hover the cursor over the person’s name in your inbox list.
  — New York Times, 21 May 2018
• Use your hands to move the cursor around and pinch your index finger and thumb to select.
  — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2024
• This changes your cursor from the rainbow wheel to the standard arrow.
  — USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2024
• The movement of the cursor matches the movement of the mouse.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2023
• Clifford scans the folder, moves the cursor over a file and highlights it.
  — Roy Parry, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• My eyes were the cursor arrow, and my fingers were the mouse, it was explained.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 25 Mar. 2024
• Use the arrows in the top left, or click and drag your cursor or mouse, to move the view up/down and right/left.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2016
• This means the left control stick moves a cursor around, while the A button clicks.
  — Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 2 Aug. 2024
• To pin, run your cursor over the email in your inbox and click the thumbtack icon, which will bold when clicked.
  — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• Hold a key, speak, release, and the words land wherever your cursor sits.
  — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 5 July 2026
• Guiding a cursor is the best way to make moves in a strategy game, after all.
  — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
• His new aircraft is advanced enough that the pilot can use a cursor on a screen to tell the plane where to go.
  — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 19 Sep. 2019
• The network’s output was a command to the joystick to move the cursor on the screen.
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2016
• It’s used to measure how fast the cursor moves when using a physical mouse.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
• The duo head to a parking lot to test out the mouse-car, which moves the cursor by driving and clicks by honking.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 18 Feb. 2018