Sentence examples for told to dial from inspiring English sources

Already, telephones can be told to dial a certain number or person.

No adult sophisticated enough to call a bond-trading firm needs to be told to dial 1 before the area code, he reasoned.

With environmentalists constantly being told to dial down the doom and gloom, to focus on the happy jobs and economic arguments, how can we ever create that visceral sense of seriousness that the problem warrants?

They had been told to dial a cell phone number at noon to learn where to show up:a drab conference room at the Golden Nugget.

(Or, well, Apple designers got to overindulge their blue-sky thinking around the idea that 'in space no one can hear you type'.) Several colleagues have garnered dagger glances and been told to dial it down at conferences on account of all the key clattering as they worked.

I am really taken aback that middle schoolers were not allowed to go outside for a break and residents were told to dial 911, all over this.

And while team policy is for families to be made welcome, the White Sox had told LaRoche to "dial back" Drake's visits.

At first "he had me suckered," Mr. Hirdler said, but he grew suspicious when the caller told him to dial 911 and ask for the police chief for verification.

The sergeant testified that he received the informant's call around 11 p.m. on April 17 , 2012 and after hearing his information, told him to dial a police hot line that offers callers anonymity and financial compensation for information about illegal guns; a hot line detective then called the 911 operator.

The truth is, for all of AOL's many faults, they have never once asked us to adjust our content and they have certainly not told us to dial down the snark.

The 29-year-old football coach and former college defensive lineman reacted almost immediately, running at the teen and tackling him to the ground as he told students to dial 911.