Example Sentences

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For years, grocery retailers have been dialing up spending on e-commerce infrastructure to defend competition from Amazon.

From Barron's • Dec. 10, 2025

Dr. John J. Pippin, director of academic affairs for the physicians committee, said medical schools have been dialing down their animal programs, which once commonly involved dogs.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2016

She appeared via a satellite feed from London, but Mr. King may as well have been dialing in from a distant solar system.

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2010

He must have been dialing my mom’s number nonstop since August.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer