How to Use dial-up in a Sentence

dial-up

adjective
  • Online friend-making has been around in some form since dial-up.
    Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
  • The theatrics of it all enough to inspire Jenner to dial-up her own powers of seduction.
    Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2024
  • If your daily-driver is a Tesla, this will seem like switching from broadband to dial-up.
    Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 10 May 2023
  • One was the availability of broadband internet, which was faster than the dial-up connections of the 1990s.
    The Conversation, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2023
  • This was unavoidable in the age of dial-up, when the Internet connection would get disrupted any time a parent had to use the phone line.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The charming drone of a dial-up tone has been replaced by Slack pings, text message buzzes and an iPhone alarm designed to activate our fight or flight senses.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2024
  • This website was around in the 1990s when online dating was done by dial-up and was heavily stigmatized.
    Sabrina Talbert, Women's Health, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The problem was his town of 1,400 people had only dial-up internet service.
    Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Pop-up ads aren’t new, as anyone who remembers dial-up internet can attest.
    Ash Parrish, The Verge, 1 Dec. 2023
  • And the connections out to remote employees become super low-bandwidth—like dial-up speed.
    Yec, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The shrill drone of dial-up is a defining feature of Kyle Mooney’s directorial debut Y2K, even if the actual sound plays only a few times throughout the comedian’s brash and lopsided film.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Imagine using a cutting-edge smartphone but with a dial-up Internet connection.
    Rajan Kohli, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The technology led to high-speed Internet, with data capacities and transmission rates that were unimaginable with dial-up systems.
    IEEE Spectrum, 18 Jan. 2024
  • But times change, previously indispensable tech tools get shoved to the back of a desk drawer and shiny touch-screen communication devices now make their hardware-heavy predecessors seem as primitive as wheezing dial-up modems.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2023
  • It was negotiated before even dial-up Internet was invented.
    Robert E. Lighthizer, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2023

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