Sentence examples for dial from inspiring English sources

You can just dial 911 no matter where you are?" asked Roberts.

His Drake edits pair the Torontonian Andrex puppy with mournful 160bpm workouts, and he's part of the Teklife fraternity alongside DJ Spinn et al. Check the recent Buy Now EP, in which he takes 80s boogie – SOS Band, Roy Ayers, Shalamar – and whips round the tempo dial until they're chirruping at breakneck speed.

When, out of desperation, I dial it a final time, someone picks up.

Luckily, I have a big, red rotary dial phone, so I'm screeching into a lovely, solid chunk of plastic.

Personally, I prefer them when they dial up their math-rock vibes.

It was like twiddling the dial of a radio, and getting all the pundits at once.

Cardiff gets sold off to a larger company to keep cranking out computers and Cameron has left to form Mutiny, an early version of an online gaming company where the modems are still dial-up and the most ingenious game is a full-colour version of backgammon.

You can hear an internet dial-up from circa 2001 through the hiss, drone and static of Defamation.

Compared with text, pictures really were the equivalent of 1,000 words, at least when it came to the time taken to transmit them.When your correspondent hand-coded The Economist's first website back in 1994, a typical web page was about 50 kilobytes in size and dial-up modems could transfer no more than three kilobytes a second.

If that fails, he gives up in disgust and reads a newspaper instead.Back in the early days of the internet, when most web users relied on dial-up connections, browsers were crude and web graphics were clumsy GIF files, eight seconds was considered the maximum people would stick around for a page to load.

The evidence from America is that consumers who have the high-speed "always on" Internet access delivered by broadband technologies spend more than four times as long online as their dial-up counterparts (see chart), and engage in a far wider range of e-commerce activities.