Words similar to dial

Example sentences for: dial

How can you use “dial” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Once registered, you dial a number in the United States, where a computer with caller-ID recognizes you after one ring.
They invariably dial by the pulse method; although it is certainly technically feasible to arrange for them to dial with tones, nobody has figured out why anyone would want to do so.
It's the woman, of course, who, seeing her own frustrated sportsman in the prone figure on the field, smiles as she turns up the dial on the ad meter.
Perhaps the best example of this paradigm is the touch-tone phone, which has so edged out the older models that two backwords were formed for the old type: rotary phone and dial phone . On the other hand, cellular phones are still new enough to have their own novelty label.
For example, a dealer in stolen automobiles with the telephone number 468-2277 could tell customers to dial HOT CARS; a psychiatric clinic with the number 578-6887 could tell patients to phone 5, R U NUTS (or U R NUTS); dial PLUMBER (758-6237) if you have a leak, COLLEGE (265-5343) to register for extention courses.