Dial

"Dial" in a Sentence (23 examples)

Could you dial for me? The telephone is too high.

In case of an emergency, dial 110.

In case of fire, dial 119.

In case of fire, you should dial 119.

In the case of fire, dial 119.

Can I dial directly?

You don't see many dial phones around anymore.

Dial 110 at once.

No, please dial nine first.

Do I have to dial the area code, too?

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Holonyms: (often holonymous) instrument, gauge

The dial on the dashboard showed the car was nearly out of gas.

Turn the dial to Radio 4: my favourite show is on!

His hands were too fat to operate the dial on the telephone.

“Well, all I can say is that if yer don't take yer dial outer the road I'll bloomin' well take an' bounce a gibber off yer crust.”

At the sound of the old familiar voice he spun around with something of the agility of a cat on hot bricks, and I saw that his dial, usually cheerful, was contorted with anguish, as if he had swallowed a bad oyster.

Old Mona Lisa would have looked like a sour lemon beside Angel Day on the rare days she put a smile on her dial, laughing with her friends when some new man was in town.

The lead guitarist for the rock band Spinal Tap dialed his amplifier to 11.

The president has recently dialled down the rhetoric.

In an emergency dial 999.

Please be careful when dialling.

The application failed when attempting to dial the Postgres server, because there were too many open connections.

I always check my guestbook when I dial, just in case anyone saw my Web site.

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