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Example sentences for: dials

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

The president dials a "friend" on his private line.
Mom's still smiling, struck by the warmth and familiarity of this scene--and, the ad makers hope, she's still turning up the dials and buying up the Tylenol.
It dials up, connects to selected sites, downloads certain information, and arranges it in an easy-to-read format--all while you sleep (or are otherwise living your life).
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?
The town is selected by a dart thrown at a map, and Feldman dials the town randomly until someone answers and chats with him (the feature ran eight years before he lighted upon an inhabitant who'd heard of the show).