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
• Think of it like upgrading from dial-up modem speeds to broadband speeds.
  — Billal Hammoud, Forbes, 29 Mar. 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• The charming drone of a dial-up tone has been replaced by Slack pings, text message buzzes and an iPhone alarm designed to activate our fight or flight senses.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
• Anyone who’s old enough to remember dial-up internet may suffer flashbacks trying to get on to some Delta 8 THC websites.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
• In 1993, after dial-up but before smartphones, the cartoonist Peter Steiner published a drawing in the New Yorker that would come to define the early years of life online.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
• The first wave came ashore in the 1990s with the arrival of dial-up internet access, which made personal computers good for something beyond word processing and basic games.
  — Jonathan Haidt, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024