Sentence examples for dial to indicate from inspiring English sources

His concept - users of his meters would turn a dial to indicate how happy or unhappy they were with any political proposal - was strange and ambitious enough.

On the Lady Arpels Poetic Wish, the silhouette of a young woman moves slowly from the left to the center of the dial to indicate the exact hour.

Participants, who ranged in age from 18 to 40, were wired with electrodes to measure their bodily responses while they watched emotionally charged scenes from movies and used a rating dial to indicate how they were feeling.

After college, a girlfriend bought me a Diesel watch with the image of at least six continents on its dial, to indicate just how "worldly" I was, and a subsequent girlfriend had it repaired after we had broken up, a gesture of unusual kindness.

Then they asked him to turn a dial to indicate any changes he noticed.

Mark a line on the temperature control dial to indicate its ideal setting.

Yet, he adds, if we were to pass that point — and at present we have no dials to indicate whether we have — then we couldn't compensate for our error through technological innovation or energy breakthroughs.

Mr. Wirthlin (Dick Wirthlin to those who knew him) was a regular presence in the Reagan White House, frequently polling and testing the president's speeches with groups holding dial meters to indicate what phrases and emphases they liked or disliked.

Each student was given a handheld dial and shown how to use it to indicate their opinions during the debate.

Additional structures called dial structures are also fabricated beside each ridge to indicate the index of the structure.

), move the dial to the point 180º across from it, exactly opposite the dial face.