dial
Example Sentences
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“Society will over time figure out how to think about where people should set that dial,” he said.
Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hardhat gazed at a grey wall of seemingly endless dials, screens and gauges that were supposed to prevent disaster.
From Barron's
Anyone dialed into online culture in the early aughts encountered the surrealist comedy series born from Flash animation and two brothers spoofing kids books.
From Salon
Nielsen, Greenland’s prime minister, responded to the appointment of Landry by seeking to dial down tensions.
That’s when the Alabama defense dialed up a secret plan of its own—designed especially to capitalize on an overeager offense.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
