Sentence examples for a few dials from inspiring English sources

Tech products should be about as complicated as a toaster: just a few dials and a two-minute learning curve, owner's manual optional.

When they finished recording "Country Blues" and a half-dozen other tunes, Lomax turned a few dials and played the record back.

The bank's culture has to be "modified", said Jenkins, which made it sound like a matter of tweaking a few dials when surely he knows it's the work of half a decade at least.

Instead of hurtling 100 mph up into empty space, our pilot just spun a few dials, pulled back a knob, and the plane lifted Jetson-syle straight up into the air before scooting forward.

A few days later, Dial said its quarterly earnings would be 10percentt lower than last year's, and investors responded by driving down the share price by 23percentt in a day.

What the Stiglitz commission ultimately concluded was that it's necessary to make a few sustainability dials on the dashboard simply raw data — registering things like a country's carbon footprint or species extinctions — until we figure out how to give the effects approximate monetary values.

To be sure, a few stories dialed back the utopianism.

A year ago a landslide disrupted local service and left some households without a dial tone for a few days.

Phone service was intermittent: After a few minutes of dialing, we finally got hold of a friend who was in  a group of half a dozen that included Yael, but they had long since crossed the bridge into the square and could not find a way to get back over.

Escaping your to-do list and unplugging for a few hours/days will dial down your stress levels and make you better partners.

(Be very quiet so your noises won't be on the recording) Wait a few seconds, then dial the phone number on the cellphone away from the tape recorder, so the recorder won't pick up the cellphone sounds.