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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 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).
Have you ever set the dials in your head to register with maximum sensitivity any new encounter with a particular word or phrase?
Now, the white lines' dot and dash makes my hand less steady on the wheel, the stoplight glimmers a shade too red-- the faith I've never felt in the day to day haunts me like some imp-winged demon in a Bosch painting, its infantile, red-bawling face staring accusingly into my eyes as if it dared to fly beyond the gilt frame, hectoring, hovering, sluggish wings buzzing like the winter-hatched fly stumbling spastic against the dashboard dials, its frail internal compass somehow gone haywire overridden by spurts and shocks.
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.