Sentence examples for double dial from inspiring English sources

You will hear a double dial tone to let you know that you have now restricted your call without revealing your identity to those you are calling.

The Janvier pedestal double-dial regulator, a museum-quality piece last seen in 1949 in an exhibition called "Masterpieces of Horology" at the Musée du Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris, was sold for €432,750, or about $595,000, a belated recognition for a brilliant clockmaker who died in poverty and obscurity.

In collaboration with the French auction house and the horology specialists Chayette & Cheval, Sotheby's held a sale this month of rarely seen historical pieces that included an armillary planetarium, a double-dial pedestal regulator and a calendrical table regulator, all signed by the 18th-century French clockmaker Antide Janvier.

The controls are minimal: zoom rocker, two mode switch buttons (motion/still), a record button and a dial that doubles as a directional pad.

Dial returned easily double that in ad value, says ITVX, which computes a payoff ratio for product placements.

The watches feature a highly complicated tourbillon double balance spring caliber and dials made of razor-thin Meissen porcelain decorated with a trompe-l'oeil miniature dragon or serpent that can be hidden or revealed by a fan shutter mechanism activated by a push button in the crown.

Translation: Though today's $39.95 price for DSL is double the $19.95 standard for dial-up, there's no net gain for the ISP.

After carefully washing with only the back side of the double bar of soap the word "Dial" eventually breaks through the back surface.

9. Retro Double Timer with two 55-minute dials; $23 at Kikkerland, (866) 822-5571, kikkerlandshop.com.

Telephones had rotary dials and did not double as game consoles.

Optionally, before the "Dial" breaks through, stick the double bar of soap to a third bar of Dial soap as in Step 3. Continue washing with the triple bar of soap until the word "Dial" breaks through the back side of bar three and bar one completely wears away exposing the word "Dial" on bar two.