Words similar to dial

Example sentences for: dial

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The Sunday LAT had a piece that came as quite a shock to the huge numbers of those who bought cell phones for their cars primarily as an emergency communications device--in California at least, the phones aren't very reliable at reaching anybody when you dial 911.
The literal-minded among us have fastened on the inaccuracy of the retained word dial for what many now have on telephones.
Yet there are some questions that are becoming almost universal: with the disappearance of telephone dials, do we enter, key, punch in , or (still) dial a number?
You hang up to avoid a Belgacom charge, and the computer calls you back, providing you with a stateside dial tone so you can dial as if you were in the United States.
Of course, officeholders shouldn't dial for dollars from their official digs.