dial

Example Sentences

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"We were not getting near them. You can just see that they're turning the dial a wee bit. We were killing ourselves."

From BBC

China has dialled back on planned fuel price hikes in a bid to "reduce the burden" on drivers, as energy costs surge amid the Iran war.

From BBC

Musk later dialed back his view on automation.

From MarketWatch

Faced with a chilly house, some users might then dial up the power on their heat pump - but if you do that, much of the efficiency advantage fritters away, he says.

From BBC

And like all of television, reality is facing splintered and waning audiences so the decibel level of that conversation-sparking is often dialed way up.

From Los Angeles Times