Examples of dial tone in a Sentence
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When the lights go out and the cell phones go dark, that click and dial tone are often the last resort.
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Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2024
In Protest Trump Defeats Haley In Michigan Republican Primary—On Track To Clinch Nomination Next Month
Own A Solution Mindset
Decades ago, people paid for a dial tone.
—Pete Bernard, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
The Free Press found two pay phones in the lobby of the 36th District Court in Detroit, but couldn't get a dial tone on either one.
—Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
OpenAI’s Sora has made that problem seem as antiquated as a modem’s dial tone.
—Kylie Robison, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
His 20 albums range from glam rock forerunner (Transformer, produced by David Bowie) to tragic rock opera (Berlin) to instrumental saw blade and dial tone (Metal Machine Music) to sincere pop schmaltz (Set the Twilight Reeling).
—Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023
The phone on Ninetieth Street had a dial tone.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 28 May 2022
Or the dial tone of creation.
—Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
There was only an empty dial tone.
—Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2024
In Protest Trump Defeats Haley In Michigan Republican Primary—On Track To Clinch Nomination Next Month
Own A Solution Mindset
Decades ago, people paid for a dial tone.
—Pete Bernard, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
The Free Press found two pay phones in the lobby of the 36th District Court in Detroit, but couldn't get a dial tone on either one.
—Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
OpenAI’s Sora has made that problem seem as antiquated as a modem’s dial tone.
—Kylie Robison, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
His 20 albums range from glam rock forerunner (Transformer, produced by David Bowie) to tragic rock opera (Berlin) to instrumental saw blade and dial tone (Metal Machine Music) to sincere pop schmaltz (Set the Twilight Reeling).
—Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023
The phone on Ninetieth Street had a dial tone.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 28 May 2022
Or the dial tone of creation.
—Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
There was only an empty dial tone.
—Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
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“Dial tone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dial%20tone. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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