Sentence examples for dial on a from inspiring English sources

He had carefully reinvented himself, as if replacing a dial on a clock.

Mr. Breuker compared the desired effect to spinning two records at once, or twisting the dial on a radio.

It first appeared in the BBC's report on the 1959 general election, as a hand-operated dial on a black-and-white map of Britain.

In many homes the tuning dial on a radio set is already obsolete and it seems likely that, within a decade, the set itself will have been replaced by computers, tablets and smartphones.

Early examples of the battery, which weighs the same as current smartphone batteries, show a graphic dial on a phone lighting up as the seconds go past before finally reaching full capacity.

Say you're imagining the sound of a cymbal being brushed: Can you turn up the volume on that imagined sound in your head without changing the quality of the sound, as with a volume dial on a stereo, or does the timbre change when you do so?

He is twiddling the dial on an ancient radio, tuning into the BBC Nepali service.

And he's correct: turning the tuning dial on an analogue radio produces a plethora of electronic sounds from the ether.

Bell Atlantic also offers call blocking, which can prevent 540 numbers from being dialed on a phone.

The question is: How many measures beyond G.D.P. — how many dials on a new dashboard — will you need?

Now that my sons were gone, my view of those days swam into clearer focus, as if I were fine-tuning the dials on a pair of binoculars.