Sentence examples for dial towards from inspiring English sources

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Downing Street strategists have been working for months to shift the dial towards an alternative narrative of leadership at the helm of a coalition and now a Tory majority government.

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Spotify and the like have redefined listening habits but they've also driven (mainly young) listeners away from the human interaction the FM dial offers, towards endless playlists interrupted by infuriatingly upbeat adverts about clearing hotlines.

Then again, turn the dial too far towards "romance", and you are in the realms of the "epic love story", and pretty much out the other end of sci-fi: The Time Traveller's Wife, Richard Curtis's About Time, The Lake House, Kate & Leopold – they are essentially date movies with a light sprinkling of speculative fiction.

Apart from the spot-on comparisons (misleading sheep-trails "like the frayed end of a rope", "dishcloth-coloured sheep"), Armitage amusingly turns the dial of personification towards comic hyperbole: facing wind "is like being spray-painted", the mud wants to "rive off" not just his boots but his trousers.

Apply pressure towards the bar with the dial indicator.

He just needs to twist the dial on the RSL machine a bit closer towards "attack".

Dial laughed.

Dial tone.

Dial them".

Dial Press.

On Dial.

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