Sentence examples for dialing to from inspiring English sources

They are kept furiously busy, dialing to new frequencies, flying to new altitudes and headings and punching in transponder codes.

But there was plenty of behind-the-scenes dialing to fill the seats and shape the audience beforehand.

The telemarketers find ways around these, like random-digit dialing to reach unlisted numbers and jamming of caller I.D. Have you been getting more hang-ups in recent years?

Clyde Haberman's discussion of the conversion of New York City from seven-digit dialing to 11-digit dialing, beginning on Saturday, called to mind that a few years ago, Atlanta underwent a similar transformation.

But his research, along with that of his subordinates, quietly yet emphatically defined the experience of using the telephone in the mid-20th century and afterward, from ushering in all-digit dialing to casting the shape of the keypad on touch-tone phones.

"Yesterday's thought was how did I get here, 31, 32, just this huge knot of unknowing and losing my hair," a telemarketer in one of Sam Lipsyte's stories laments before dialing to determine a stranger's satisfaction with a local salad bar.

"Whatever," the girl muttered, and turned the dial to jazz.

It had no fudge factors -- no dials to twiddle.

Disadvantage: No hockey pucks or little dials to turn.

Co. with those numbers that correspond on the dial to the letters of his name.

With his triumph in Denver, Romney has single-handedly reset the dial to neutral.