Sentence examples for rotary from inspiring English sources

Luckily, I have a big, red rotary dial phone, so I'm screeching into a lovely, solid chunk of plastic.

Eight days earlier, Philips had said part of its lighting division the industry it started out in, in 1891 would be hived off, and outside shareholders sought.In the early 1980s the company that had invented the rotary shaver and the compact disc was employing about 380,000 people around the world, and had become bloated with low-margin businesses.

Mr McCain often finds himself addressing the local rotary club.A different view of the worldDemocratic voters view foreign policy very differently from Republican ones.

Mazda's sporty cars and rotary engines, for example, do very well in Europe.

As a result, bacteria have developed a unique way of swimming: using tiny rotary motors called flagella, which resemble corkscrews.James Friend, co-director of the Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory at Monash University near Melbourne, Australia, is building a flagella-inspired micro-motor he hopes will one day propel a micro-robot through an artery or vein.

It was only after the widespread deployment of the "rotary converter", a device that transforms one kind of current into another, that different power plants and generators could be assembled into a universal grid.

The term refers to scams in which the perpetrator uses personal contacts to swindle a specific group, such as a church congregation, a rotary club, a professional circle or an ethnic community.

For a time, part of the issue was produced on thin airmail paper, which took even longer.It was reckoned that rotary-press printing would begin to pay with a print order of 6,000 or 7,000, and, painfully, the circulation got there.

The Ohioan's concerned progeny estimated that from the 1960s until 2006 their granny had paid over $14,000 for a pair of rotary-dial telephones.

Sitting in a small office with a roaring fire (gas, alas) and an old-fashioned rotary-dial phone, he talks about the company's Cutty Sark brand of whisky being blended on the table in front of him.But Mr Berry is not just resting on the company's laurels.

A 13-year-old presented with a rotary-dial phone should be able to suss the interface out and place a call, but would hardly carry a picture of it in his head when using a mobile.The famously terrible Podcasts app from Apple lets a listener scrub through a recording by dragging a slider.