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    Use "dial" in a sentence

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    dial


    dials


    1. Once the shiny Audi was out of sight he made his heavy way back into the station and fished an old battered phone from his pocket and selected a speed dial number that picked up quickly


    2. She'd dial something else during breakfast now and then


    3. With one hand on the wheel he used the other to fiddle with the dial until he found some suitably sentimental melodies that suited his voice and so began to croon


    4. Thom had access to magic, and could dial his strength to a setting called 'Hercules' while Alan had neglected to up his magic level while he was in Ava's lab and didn't even have a med panel to reach for that setting


    5. He had to bring up his med panel to dial his erection out


    6. to dial a number on his cellphone


    7. She turned a dial and zoomed the camera in, carefully studying its features


    8. ‘Yes … can I help you?’ I replied, frowning as I try to think who this could be … who have I given my direct dial line number to?


    9. dial was turned down to zero, she could still hear the song


    10. “Wait!” he shouted and heard a dial tone

    11. Jock pretends to kill the call and dial again


    12. radio and turned the volume dial up


    13. I’m considered to be luke warm on the sexometer, still in the green part of the dial


    14. No dial tone


    15. All you need to know is the direction and the elevation you want to go then dial in a new direction or altitude and press the knob


    16. ‘Just dial this toll free number,’ he said


    17. Why is there breakfast? It is only so the 'family' can be together at an enforced time isn't it? But he had the freedom to dial anything he wanted in the kitchenette didn't he? Of course, he could just access his medical panel and dial hunger out of his life altogether


    18. Picks up the phone and starts to dial


    19. To dream that you dial the wrong number means that you are experiencing difficulties in relating to others


    20. Lunarey felt so anxious when she heard the dial tone change into Rosabell's voice

    21. A few dial tones later, his voice was heard on the other end


    22. "I needed it for the keyboard, to dial you


    23. He batted playfully at my hand as I flipped the dial in search of an educational program


    24. boring? I was having a great time listening to dial tones and recorded messages


    25. Be that as it may, he did dial his music volume down and everyone was happy


    26. station number by heart and was prepared to dial it


    27. He glanced up at the dial which indicated the fares and began to count


    28. hands of the clock began chasing each other round the dial, and the


    29. Alex trimmed the craft and tapped at a dial with his fingertip


    30. There is indicated altitude, the uncorrected height in feet as read by the pilot directly from the dial; then there is actual altitude, or elevation of the terrain expressed in feet above sea level, then true altitude, this is actual height of the aircraft above sea level; then there is absolute altitude, which is the actual height of the aircraft above the terrain, you get that by subtracting elevation from true altitude

    31. In the dim light, I noticed that the dial behind the


    32. So I’d decided I’d go in; use my mind, heart and soul, preferably only figuratively speaking, and destroy the gateway I’d once build myself once and for all, so then the Normal Bureau could go back to policing the odd cult, the few occultists that actually got the incantations right, and the occasional stranded demon that had forgotten to dial home


    33. “Before I dial 911 for your ambulance Bub, you and I are going to play twenty questions


    34. He’d been preparing to dial when… He glared at the intercom


    35. When they were alone, Colling adjusted the radio’s dial so that the result was a low-pitched hum, fluctuating occasionally with a shriller tone


    36. Colling twisted the dial some more, producing a range of noise, then tuned back to the Warsaw station and reduced the volume


    37. When they reached their room, Elizabeth turned on the radio and adjusted the dial until the sounds of a symphony orchestra filled the room


    38. Colling shrugged his shoulders to indicate that he did not understand what he was saying, when the man brushed past him and turned off the radio with an emphatic twist of its dial


    39. “I think the dial is hung up on the frame,” he said, and Andre pushed the bottom of it inwards a little, the thing came down with a big thud, and then they had it


    40. could spot him, and dial in the suits

    41. He tuned the dial first and then turned it on


    42. The Swede shrugged and turned the dial, while the selector remained on the AM setting


    43. Junya figured one of two things: either he failed to dial the proper area


    44. Kholi started to dial the number of the girl he intended to see before he


    45. her, but he then stopped and turned towards the pool house to dial Khevasiah"s


    46. Hunter closed the door to the safe and spun the dial


    47. As he turned the dial past the stations, between the static they heard first a German voice, then an Italian song


    48. “Here’s London,” he said, turning the dial again


    49. punching the automatic dial button


    50. I had just gotten off the phone after calling 823-4863 and yelling, ''You're a jackass!'' (It's really easy to call him now since I have his number on speed dial













































    1. How on earth do you know which ones to press and when? Then the array of dials set into the surface above the steering wheel caught her eye … what did they all mean? She’d been in taxis many times but never in a personal vehicle like this


    2. He grinned as he caught her peering at some of the dials


    3. He was bent over a large screen, watching a pattern emerge as he slowly tweaked some dials


    4. Using that handwritten entry, she then set the ten dials on the lower right of the panel


    5. ” The tech turned some dials, “this is very unusual sir, there does not appear to be an engine on the third ship


    6. Brent did and the chair moved by itself and slid forward centering him amid the vast array of dials and buttons


    7. He fiddled with the dials, eventually found a trace


    8. He shakes his head as he dials his cell phone


    9. It was about half the size of a domestic washing machine with four vertical filter tubes at the front and plenty of dials and switches, plus a black screen showing green words and a couple


    10. Monitoring machines, not of the electronic variety, but with flickering dials, and adjacent cylinders with pumps pushing air – and fluid – through connecting tubes

    11. To the side, on table tops, were mounted high-tech monitoring equipment; a machine with cables protruding and numerous dials, numbers he couldn't quite make out


    12. They had motioned towards the machine with the dials


    13. I asked, “Do you still have any with the dials on them? You know, the dials that light


    14. As he worked his way through the list, various instruments and dials came to life, until the interior of the submersible began to resemble the cockpit of a jumbo jet


    15. Like all military vehicles it had enough instrument dials to make anyone happy, especially me (does not take much says my American Patriot)


    16. The Njala had an impressive amount of dials and buttons for the driver to play with


    17. What reason lay behind this endless pulling of strings and turning of dials like the movement of wheels within wheels


    18. He focused on his body and felt its energy; he focused on his mind and conjured an image: he was on the platform of an old steam engine with colossal levers and wheels and steam and heat and dials and the smell of hot ash and grease and thundering vibration and dials indicating temperature and pressure and speed


    19. He absently checked his dials


    20. They passed through a part of the corridor that was littered with mechanical equipment, tools, rods, and all sorts of metal boxes with screens and dials

    21. the dials and levers of the plate for a satisfactory spot, he


    22. There will be a fellow waiting for me in my office about now," said Harry, reading the dials on his wristwatch


    23. ” She dials his number


    24. On his right wrist Park wore a watch with twin dials, a Christmas gift from his wife, Dorothy, that helps him keep up with time zones when he travels


    25. checking on several of the dials on Hal yday's container


    26. Control valves and dials were arranged in panels around the walls


    27. Dean came over to him and held his hands as he slowly turned the dials of the clock


    28. One doctor, robed and masked, was at the head of the operating table monitoring dials and switches and checking the vital statistics of an obviously anaesthetised patient who was lying on his side, covered with a green cloth with a hole where his kidney would be


    29. Colin went back to watching the dials and recorders


    30. � he says as he takes his mobile phone out of his pocket and dials a number

    31. � Steve pushes a button and dials again; the phone rings four times before a voice shouts; �Who is it?�


    32. Steve quickly dials another number, the phone ring seven times when the lady on the answer phone tells him to leave a message


    33. Disconnecting the call he dials again, and again with still no answer, now very worried he puts the phone onto the table and rolls a cigarette


    34. Halfway through the cigarette he dials again and slams the phone back onto the table in frustration when the call is not answered


    35. Preparing two mugs with coffee and sugar he goes back to the table and picking up his phone dials again; still no answer!


    36. Putting the mug of coffee onto the table he picks up his phone and dials again


    37. Taking his telephone out of his pocket he dials Nicola and tells her they will be back in the morning


    38. The control panel contained a joystick and ten glass covered dials that recorded fuel, battery supply and diagnostics on the state of the engines and systems


    39. Pulling a piece of paper out of his pocket with the telephone number of the local police station he dials the number


    40. The co-pilot’s eyes continually ran over the dials on the

    41. Then he went over to a control panel and carefully adjusted a few dials


    42. A computer hooked into a few phones dials a group of telephone numbers and there are some people monitoring what’s going on


    43. � Her gun belt with her Glock 17 pistol was around her waist and also supported a sort of small box with recessed buttons and dials on its top side


    44. It was made of titanium alloy, had a quartz movement powered by a battery connected to mini solar panels incorporated to the wrist strap, and had multiple dials and moving crowns actually designed for use by combat pilots


    45. Beneath the ten dials there was writing carved into the stone


    46. He and Father du Bois checked all the other dials, and they were the same


    47. symbol, and then turned the rest of the dials so that they spelled out ―APHRODITE


    48. She dials a number and puts the cell phone to her ear


    49. Michael dials a number on his cell phone


    50. She picks up the receiver and dials a number









































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    Synonyms for "dial"

    dial telephone dial rotate turn twist wheel gyrate disc front face compass control circle indicator phone call up call ring ring up

    "dial" definitions

    the face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours


    the control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning


    the circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments


    a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called


    operate a dial to select a telephone number


    choose by means of a dial