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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:

First, at a time and frequency you determine (just once, once a week, every day, or every weekday), it dials your Internet service provider (if necessary), makes a connection, downloads the Web pages you have selected, closes the connection, and hangs up.
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.
Solemnly, she leads him over to the fax station, where he scribbles out a message and dials.
Have you ever set the dials in your head to register with maximum sensitivity any new encounter with a particular word or phrase?
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?