Sentence examples for dial may be from inspiring English sources

A watch with an artful dial may be an automaton (like the hypnotic Bird Repeater by Jaquet Droz), have intricate marquetry (like the Blossom Velvet Blue by Roger Dubuis) or simply use a unique fabric (like the Big Bang Linen by Hublot), but each will make it a pleasure to see the minutes go by.

The dials may be operated by the attendant who runs the regular projection machine.

This article reports some of the difficulties encountered in a case-control study whose mean case age was 63.4 years and suggests that community controls selected by random digit dialing may be preferable to hospital controls for hypothesis-generating case-control studies of diseases in the elderly.

Some of the dials will be numbered clockwise and other dials may be numbered counterclockwise.

Older-model spring and dial scales may be accurate as little as 13% of the time.[10].[10]

The ISO dial, which may be marked as ASA, tells the camera the speed of your film.

The arc-shaped marks on the meter dial face may be different colors that indicate each scale, so they will have different values.

There are times when wired broadband or even old-fashioned dial-up may be the only options.

Watching the web grow up ReprintsFor internet users in rural areas, dial-up may be the only affordable way to get online.

With our increased reliance on these dialing shortcuts, it may be that the only phone number many of us will remember in the future is the one in the 1982 Tommy Tutone song with the catchy chorus, "867-5309".

The sound of dial-up connections may be quaint in Alex Winter's "Downloaded," but not the issues in the film, the latest in VH1's enlightening series of Rock Docs.