Sentence examples for dial up to from inspiring English sources

That's why critics like Bruce Springsteen turned the dial up to 11 on their unsuccessful protests of the deal.

On the fourth or fifth day, he was so pleased that he turned the dial up to 9,000 feet.

You can almost see him mentally turning the sincerity dial up to 11. "I love London," he says wistfully.

Winterbottom consciously turns the provocation dial up to 11, to 12, to 13 and beyond by making the victim actually appear to be grateful and submissive.

Pitching them against each other on opposite sides of the law, Miike gives this stunt-casting the appropriate sense of occasion by turning every dial up to 11.

1. PHONE -- Siemens's Gigaset 4215 cordless telephone ($180) lets callers dial up to 20 numbers by uttering the name of the person to be called.

"If everything's dialed up to 11, at a certain point you become numb to it".

"Twitter can reveal the user who dialled up to the connection at that time," he told the Guardian.

Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell throw themselves into their roles, turning the dials up to 11: with mixed but interesting results.

The very first pages introduce "mood-organs", dialled up to suppress or stimulate feelings among a needy population.

The Rocky-villain factor is dialed up to 11, and with it a certain homoeroticism (exhibits A, B, and C).