How to Use dial tone in a Sentence

dial tone

noun

• The din of city traffic is about 85 decibels; the hum of a dial tone, 80 decibels.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 9 Sep. 2020
• But, after the sound of a dial tone, the pair went silent, and Negandhi’s studio crew again took over.
  — Ramon Antonio Vargas | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 19 Sep. 2020
• That allows the phone to start drawing power, giving the user a dial tone—the signal that the phone is ready to be used.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 27 Nov. 2015
• The lead guitar sounds less like a guitar than a bizarro dial tone — a round, rich, buzzing that Sohn spins into puckish, prickly riffs.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2022
• Next step: Get out the ladder and mount a few phones on the wooden noise barrier, where the constant hum of traffic on the highway serves as a sort of eternal dial tone.
  — John Reinan, Star Tribune, 20 July 2021
• Sometime that morning Johan had entered the office and, attempting to make a call, found no dial tone.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2021
• Streep blissing out to a dial tone, flirting awkwardly with Chris Cooper, brushing her teeth while stoned, smiling at her toes.
  — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020
• Even landlines weren’t exempt: The dial tone on my grandparents’ phone was temporarily replaced with the same PSA.
  — Shraddha Chakradhar, STAT, 27 Mar. 2020
• In some cases, the sound of a dial tone may constitute service under the tariff test and therefore not even trigger a public comment and review.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2017
• This is a man who will debate with dial tones, or give 10 minutes to one of those automated airplane updates that’s announcing a flight delay.
  — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Those that made such pleas on the airwaves were among the lucky few whose landlines still got a dial tone, or whose cell still picked up a signal — people like Zuania Capó, whose working cell phone turned her into a traveling dispatcher.
  — Jen Kirby, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Oct. 2017
• The implementation of control towers lack a dial tone giving business leaders a false sense of security.
  — Lora Cecere, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• Invest in supply chain operating systems to begin the journey of building a supply chain bi-directional dial tone.
  — Lora Cecere, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• This principle continued as time advanced, technology changed, and Internet access became the dial tone of the digital age.
  — Verne Kopytoff, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024