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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.
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).
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.
The president dials a "friend" on his private line.
Have you ever set the dials in your head to register with maximum sensitivity any new encounter with a particular word or phrase?