sustaining pedal

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music a foot-operated lever on a piano, usually the right one of two, that keeps the dampers raised from the strings when keys are released, allowing them to continue to vibrateCompare soft-pedal (def. 3)

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How to use sustaining pedal in a sentence

Where the force generating those threats is a widespread, self-sustaining, and virulent social movement?
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I strain and push and pedal and wonder, “When will this end?”
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I push down on the pedal with my right leg and instead of propelling myself forward, I topple over sideways.
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In fact, he said, it should give her caregivers all the more reason to consider withdrawal of life-sustaining fluids.
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We meet a worker named Joan, who tries to escape but is dragged back in after sustaining a gory walker bite on her arm.
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That is one of the places that when the pianists come to, they get their foot hard on to the pedal and hold on to it—Herr Gott!
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I had played that study to Tausig, and he found no fault with my use of the pedal; so I sat down thinking I could do it right.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
She habitually ate chocolates for their sustaining quality; they contained much nutriment in small compass, she said.
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The pedal keys were almost invariably straight and the pedal boards flat.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
It frequently leads to a player upsetting his Pedal combination when he has no desire to do so.
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