She dials down the lamp's brightness before she begins reading.

Please dial back your enthusiasm during the meeting.

The manager asked the team to dial down their aggressive marketing tactics during the sensitive negotiations.

She discovered a rotary-dial telephone in the attic and spent the afternoon dialing numbers for nostalgia.

The rotary-dial on the vintage telephone was cracked but still functional.

The museum's exhibit featured several antique rotary-dials that still worked.

The military tested a dial-a-yield warhead that could be set for either tactical or strategic use.

I programmed the most-used numbers into my phone's speed dials so I can call them with one tap.

The museum displayed several old radium dials recovered from wristwatches of the 1940s.

The machinist used a dial gauge to check the flatness of the surface plate.