Sentence examples for dial of a from inspiring English sources

TWIDDLE the dial of a short-wave radio and you never know what you will get.

"It's just like setting the dial of a smoker for 200 degrees".

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

(Like fighter pilots, experienced birders describe the canopy of a tree by comparing it to the dial of a clock).

Snatches of several TV programs, given as though writer were twirling the dial of a set hooked up to every station in Europe.

At one of the parties, Marion Brewster-Wright Deborah Rushh), the boozy, fluting wife of a bank manager, inspecting the dial of a new washing machine that has been neatly installed under a D.I.Y. shelf, says, "What's this?

Telephone repairman gave a twist of his screwdriver to the dial of an instrument and said, "I guess that'll prohibt further trouble," "You mean 'prevent'" she corrected him, not prohibit".

Replacing it is one of the smartest cabins in the class, with well-shaped seats and gauges that mimic the dials of a chunky chronograph.

One Schwarzenegger advertisement being broadcast this week shows the faces of Mr. Davis, Mr. McClintock and Lt. Gov. Cruz M. Bustamante, the most prominent Democrat on the recall ballot, on the spinning dials of a slot machine.

Some things we could count on from past experience: we knew how to buy groceries, find an apartment, and use Google to try to decipher the symbols on the dials of an oven or washing machine.

Here's a little snippet of the patent, courtesy of Dial-a-Phone….