Use "dial" in a sentence

1. How on earth do you know which ones to press and when? Then the array of dials set into the surface above the steering wheel caught her eye … what did they all mean? She’d been in taxis many times but never in a personal vehicle like this

2. He grinned as he caught her peering at some of the dials

3. He was bent over a large screen, watching a pattern emerge as he slowly tweaked some dials

4. Using that handwritten entry, she then set the ten dials on the lower right of the panel

5. ” The tech turned some dials, “this is very unusual sir, there does not appear to be an engine on the third ship

6. Brent did and the chair moved by itself and slid forward centering him amid the vast array of dials and buttons

7. He fiddled with the dials, eventually found a trace

8. He shakes his head as he dials his cell phone

9. It was about half the size of a domestic washing machine with four vertical filter tubes at the front and plenty of dials and switches, plus a black screen showing green words and a couple

10. Monitoring machines, not of the electronic variety, but with flickering dials, and adjacent cylinders with pumps pushing air – and fluid – through connecting tubes

11. To the side, on table tops, were mounted high-tech monitoring equipment; a machine with cables protruding and numerous dials, numbers he couldn't quite make out

12. They had motioned towards the machine with the dials

13. I asked, “Do you still have any with the dials on them? You know, the dials that light

14. As he worked his way through the list, various instruments and dials came to life, until the interior of the submersible began to resemble the cockpit of a jumbo jet

15. Like all military vehicles it had enough instrument dials to make anyone happy, especially me (does not take much says my American Patriot)

16. The Njala had an impressive amount of dials and buttons for the driver to play with

17. What reason lay behind this endless pulling of strings and turning of dials like the movement of wheels within wheels

18. He focused on his body and felt its energy; he focused on his mind and conjured an image: he was on the platform of an old steam engine with colossal levers and wheels and steam and heat and dials and the smell of hot ash and grease and thundering vibration and dials indicating temperature and pressure and speed

19. He absently checked his dials

20. They passed through a part of the corridor that was littered with mechanical equipment, tools, rods, and all sorts of metal boxes with screens and dials

21. the dials and levers of the plate for a satisfactory spot, he

22. There will be a fellow waiting for me in my office about now," said Harry, reading the dials on his wristwatch

23. ” She dials his number

24. On his right wrist Park wore a watch with twin dials, a Christmas gift from his wife, Dorothy, that helps him keep up with time zones when he travels

25. checking on several of the dials on Hal yday's container

26. Control valves and dials were arranged in panels around the walls

27. Dean came over to him and held his hands as he slowly turned the dials of the clock

28. One doctor, robed and masked, was at the head of the operating table monitoring dials and switches and checking the vital statistics of an obviously anaesthetised patient who was lying on his side, covered with a green cloth with a hole where his kidney would be

29. Colin went back to watching the dials and recorders

30. � he says as he takes his mobile phone out of his pocket and dials a number

31. � Steve pushes a button and dials again; the phone rings four times before a voice shouts; �Who is it?�

32. Steve quickly dials another number, the phone ring seven times when the lady on the answer phone tells him to leave a message

33. Disconnecting the call he dials again, and again with still no answer, now very worried he puts the phone onto the table and rolls a cigarette

34. Halfway through the cigarette he dials again and slams the phone back onto the table in frustration when the call is not answered

35. Preparing two mugs with coffee and sugar he goes back to the table and picking up his phone dials again; still no answer!

36. Putting the mug of coffee onto the table he picks up his phone and dials again

37. Taking his telephone out of his pocket he dials Nicola and tells her they will be back in the morning

38. The control panel contained a joystick and ten glass covered dials that recorded fuel, battery supply and diagnostics on the state of the engines and systems

39. Pulling a piece of paper out of his pocket with the telephone number of the local police station he dials the number

40. The co-pilot’s eyes continually ran over the dials on the

41. Then he went over to a control panel and carefully adjusted a few dials

42. A computer hooked into a few phones dials a group of telephone numbers and there are some people monitoring what’s going on

43. � Her gun belt with her Glock 17 pistol was around her waist and also supported a sort of small box with recessed buttons and dials on its top side

44. It was made of titanium alloy, had a quartz movement powered by a battery connected to mini solar panels incorporated to the wrist strap, and had multiple dials and moving crowns actually designed for use by combat pilots

45. Beneath the ten dials there was writing carved into the stone

46. He and Father du Bois checked all the other dials, and they were the same

47. symbol, and then turned the rest of the dials so that they spelled out ―APHRODITE

48. She dials a number and puts the cell phone to her ear

49. Michael dials a number on his cell phone

50. She picks up the receiver and dials a number

51. Diane D sits on a stool in the hallway with one knee up as she dials a number on her cell phone

52. ” Margarita picks up the telephone receiver and dials a number

53. Diane D takes the cell phone and dials a number

54. ” Christine gets off her cell phone and quickly dials a number

55. The mechanic hears nothing and pauses to look over the dash of the coupe, never seeing a set-up like the Delahaye has, dials and lights that have functions the mechanic can’t figure out, even with years of study and training

56. Dials back a

57. They entered the control cabin where two Warriors, their umbrella heads nearly touching the ceiling of the cockpit, were standing at a console of levers and buttons and dials

58. No-one dials anymore Ms

59. immediately realized that the myriads of levers and dials were duplicated

60. Kandras left and returned with an odd-looking machine; it had several dials

61. He fiddled with some dials and switches, picked up a

62. Dozens of gauges, switches, knobs, and dials covered the walls and ceiling

63. Sensitivity dials the mind towards slavery

64. Which was to say he’d stand there running his mouth long after the number dials had stopped rolling and your tank had been filled, the motor in his mouth going and going and going

65. She walks over to a boxlike thing in the window, plugs it into the wall, and shows him how to operate the dials

66. The driver takes out his cell and dials, “hello, Lex

67. The vicar put much drama into raising a finger before a flashing red button on the panel of dials and gauges, and he began building his cadenced preachment to a climax

68. The red light pulsed brightly on the panel of dials and gauges, and as Ralf raised his hand toward the button the young man began to keen in a piercingly high warble

69. Practice holding the lock and turning the dials with the affected hand Repeat __ times

70. They sat diligently staring and scanning the dials

71. ” “You can set the time on either of those two dials by pressing these buttons, the Oogie said, showing Izayah how to operate the watch

72. Orthon fiddled with the dials, and I could have sworn fear registered on his face

73. “C’mon!” I said as Orthon fumbled with the dials on his laser gun

74. " He dials the number right away

75. “What are they?” he asked, slipping them over his head and toying with the dials

76. Beside the archway was a black box with a series of dials that were locked into a fixed setting

77. attending the cooker, turning on all the dials as Yuri re-

78. She dials a number and waits for Melrose to answer

79. Heads of social organizations, institutions, the concept of a Supreme head-being: God, the making of bread by cutting off the heads of grain, the head of a bed, the head of a burning cigar or cigarette: knocked of as ashes: getting ‘ahead’, the concept of progress as the most important thing in life, competition: getting ahead of your competition, the concept of competitive elimination: ‘heads will fall’, ‘if you are not up to snuff’, snuff: sneezing your head off by taking a pinch of snuff to clear your head, giving ‘head’ sexually, warheads, bombs, firearms, bullets, artillery: any weapon that shoots something: slingshots, arrows, spears, rocks, the heading of a page, a header in grammar, the heading on a page, the heading on a sentence, the heading on a paragraph, somersaults, head-over-heels, crowns, the crowns of Corinthian pillars, pillars do not have heads: all pillars are decapitated, all segments of pillars: all decapitated columns, the idea of decapitating pillars of the community, the idea of dethroning kings, the eating of fruit like grapes, apples, etc; all edible things like coconuts, papaya,, unpeeling the head of a banana and eating it, all vegetables in the shape of a head like onions, cabbage, lettuce, the picking of leaves, the picking of fruits, the picking of beans: all drug foods the picking of spices: creating every single drug we call food, ice cream cones, all ice cream in the shape of a decapitated head, all food portions in the shape of a head, all toppings on all food, decapitated flowers, the Rose Parade: hundreds of millions of decapitated heads of flowers, all fire with flames that are decapitated, all fireworks, the crushing of spices, the picking of decapitated heads like mushrooms, eating nuts, cracking their shell, eggs, corks and bungs used to seal barrels and bottles, the tops of bottles, the sealing and taking off the tops of bottles, jars; all tools that have a head, the head of a hammer, nails, the head of a nail, pounding the head of a nail, the cutting off of the heads of large trees before decapitating them, cutting off the heads of animals to kill them and eat them, all mathematics: the counting of heads, or I’s and adding them up, the using of tools to create decapitated segments, all sports, all balls used in sports, the hitting of all balls, ping-pong, badminton, bowling, bowling pins: the decapitation of bowling pins by a bowling ball, kingpins, kings, jewelry, stickpins with diamond heads on them, canes, walking sticks with metal heads, staffs, any artifact denoting being the head of something, scepters, globes, flyswatters, turbans, musical instruments that blare out sound: decapitating it; using holes in wood and brass instruments to decapitate the natural sound into a shorter wavelength, all fretted and unfretted musical instruments, pressing on a fret to make the note shorter, like a violin or guitar, drums, drumsticks, cymbals, the heads of shoelaces, the detached mentality called the ego: decapitated and disconnected from all the other needs and energy flows of a human being, the concept of life after death as a detached form of spirit, the structure of all hierarchy, all capitalist companies and corporate bodies being ruled and controlled by detached heads of business, the capitalization of letters at the head of a word or sentence or paragraph: especially in ancient sacred Christian texts: where the first capital letter is huge, the eating of fish by decapitating them first, the use of all drugs, narcotics wine, coffee, pills: to create a disconnection between the brain and the rest of the human being, the concept of anesthesia, using drugs to numb the brain or prevent it from feeling the body’s pain, all cultures that value stoicism, macho pigs who cannot love, the concept of the hero as a stone face refusing to face the truth, refusing to feel love, refusing to feel any emotion whatsoever, refusing to cry, the stone carvings of all the ancient Kings, the decapitated carvings of all Kings on coins, the insane idea of all kings ruling by only using their decapitated heads as decapitated coins to spread their authority, all stone busts, plaster busts, the stone faces of all heroes in modern media who refuse to feel human emotion, ping-pong, the computer game: pong, King Kong: the King cut off from State: King Kong falling off the Empire State building: all the video games that are based upon decapitated heads decapitating other heads, which are all based on the old arcade pinball machines that shot decapitated heads that bounced around scoring points hitting and scoring on as many stationary targets of decapitated heads as possible, the decapitation of hair… haircuts, shaving daily, cutting your nails, the idea of assassination as a political tool, the concept of character assassination used in all human societies to cut off people who are thought too uppity or stick out too much, and do not conform… the detached form of observation that only use instruments for the eye: microscopes, telescopes, star-gazing, stamp collecting, the collections of anything from bric-a-brac to gold coins, portraits, still pictures of decapitated heads, cameos, brooches, belt buckles, shoe buckles, still photographs of decapitated heads, talking heads, heads on celluloid talking, heads on screens, moving pictures of talking heads, the idea of a leader as a talking head, all pictures on money of decapitated heads, mouthpieces, microphones, the idea of one person speaking for another, speechwriters, lawyers, politicians, amplified music coming out of a loudspeaker, amplifiers of singing-talking heads, the idea of doing nothing but talking as being the only form of social activity allowed in polite societies, the heads of shoelaces, all knots, topknots, tying hair into knots, the idea of cutting up sounds into words, into letters, into decapitated abstract symbols of meaning separated from thee body of the meaning by segmentation, all segmented forms of tool-use, all tools that segment things into decapitated heads, all decapitated forms of awareness-thinking-feeling, all forms of specialization, all segmented ways of living-doing-seeing, decapitating the natural order of things into decapitated insane pieces: decapitating a family into age groups, decapitating a community into alienated isolated individuals, all mass butchery of living animals by cutting off their heads, morse code, ticker tape, all digitalization of signals into meaningless decapitated codes, the invention of the glass tube: the first decapitated head that could mechanically receive and send energy through nerves called wires, the invention of the transistor: the first sold decapitated head that could send and receive signals, the invention of microchips: tiny decapitated heads with their own tiny brain circuits that could perform more complicated functions than the first huge glass-blown giants called vacuum tubes: because there was nothing inside them, all glass blowing, blowing up molten glass with hot air and then decapitating it to make a glass vase or bottle, all containers from bottles, jars, gourds, ladles, to pitchers and teapots with decapitated lids, all containers, chests, holding treasure, wealth, valuables, all spices and decapitated herbs, all furniture made from decapitating trees, all houses made into decapitated heads where the people living inside them only use their heads and not their hearts or bodies, the steam engine: decapitating steam to explode out in puffs of decapitated destroyed power, all wheels, all round wheels used in machines, all watches, with dials pointing at the decapitated numbers of a disconnected circle, the decapitation of all circles into wedges, pie slices, the invention of the wedge, the invention of the axe as a metal decapitated head to stick on a wooden decapitated piece of branch, all idols, all icons, all figureheads, all abstract symbols representing the head, the pinnacle, the top, the apex, the height of anything, all hierarchical awareness and structures that deem the head as the most valuable, the best, the most noble, etc; Jack-in the Box, all boxes, everything that is put into a box or container, FedEx: the obsession of transporting boxes and parcels, the song; ‘Pop goes the Weasel’, all mass-produced goods that are boxed and shipped, the detachment of specialized labor and work, the creation of holes, digging, all mining, piston heads, engine heads, everything that is called the ‘head’ of something, the froth on the top of a glass of beer,: to be blown away, the use of all zeros and ones: as in Japanese Zeros decapitating American ships, zeros and ones being created and then decapitated inside computers, the use of all zeros and ones in mathematics, scalping, the taking of heads, the shrinking of heads: which the computer microchip is the latest evolution of, …

80. He studied my face as he turned knobs and dials one way, then another

81. A security guard dials 999: he is just about to make the call when he is rugby-tackled by someone in a Mallrats t-shirt

82. Simon dials a private cab; there is silence between them as they wait, and it arrives after ten minutes

83. He dials the cab again

84. All the dials and readings glared up at me from the dash

85. The line going back to class after his lecture got close enough to the stage curtain that she could slip behind it, unseen, and make her way back to a shadowy hall wherein rows of vacant lockers lurked, their combination dials untwisted since the previous school year

86. David picks up the phone receiver and dials the number

87. He picks up the telephone and dials Christine's number, down in Jamaica

88. He dials Christine's parents' number in Jamaica

89. She dials up Joseph and Teresa's number

90. They came from the neighbourhood of Seven Dials in London and were paid ten shillings a day

91. He dials up the RF gain, adjusts the filter

92. What do they hope to find? She imagines the radio equipment high above her: microphone, transceiver, all those dials and switches and cables

93. She tries to imagine him hunched somewhere, his fingers twisting the dials of a phantom radio

94. Jutta picks up the phone beside the bed and dials nine numbers and Max launches an airplane over the street