Example sentences for: touch-tone

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

  • The technical term, often so labeled on the base of the phone, is pulse-tone , as opposed to touch-tone , a distinction in signal transmission; nowadays certain telephones with buttons are really pulse-tone models that “dial” as each button is pushed.

  • The trademarked name, by AT&T, is touch-tone®, which operates by sending more-or-less musical tones from your instrument to the switch to specify the number desired.

  • Some switches cannot handle tones, and often there is an extra charge for touch-tone® service so some users must have pulse phones.

  • 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.


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