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
  • But this isn’t the age of dial-up modems and his fate is sealed instantly.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 3 May 2026
  • Think of it like upgrading from dial-up modem speeds to broadband speeds.
    — Billal Hammoud, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Regardless, the decline of dial-up has been a long time coming.
    — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2025
  • New technologies and faster speeds rendered dial-up a connection of the past.
    — James Powel, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Ward, who is 38, remembers a dial-up connection in his home as a kid.
    — Allison Aubrey, NPR, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Or send them a message saying ‘Call Me’ with just an old dial-up phone as the image.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 31 July 2024
  • Like dial-up access in general, that note appears to have been widely ignored at first.
    — PC Magazine, 9 Aug. 2025
  • If your daily-driver is a Tesla, this will seem like switching from broadband to dial-up.
    — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 10 May 2023
  • Pop-up ads aren’t new, as anyone who remembers dial-up internet can attest.
    — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Yes, while perhaps a dinosaur by today’s digital standards, dial-up is still around.
    — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Grab your dial-up modem and strap a bra to your head, Weird Science is turning 40.
    — Jordan Hoffman Updated, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2025
  • The theatrics of it all enough to inspire Jenner to dial-up her own powers of seduction.
    — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Once upon a time the screech of the dial-up sound signaled our entry into a new realm in the form of the Internet.
    — Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Shade liked watching birds but was also listening intently to the dial-up modem’s buzz.
    — Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Also, as more powerful telecom connections evolved, the need for dial-up began to fade.
    — Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • But for millions of Americans who lived through the dial-up era, these statistics tell only part of the story.
    — ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The few people who had home Internet relied on dial-up because broadband wasn’t available yet.
    — Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Think of it less like launching a new app and more like Wall Street quietly swapping out dial-up for fiber internet.
    — Eric Piscini, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
  • And the connections out to remote employees become super low-bandwidth—like dial-up speed.
    — Yec, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • For the first time since the days of dial-up, the rules finally started to reflect how banking actually works today.
    — Lenwood V. Long, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The move has also brought attention to the small number of remaining dial-up users who will need to find alternative ways to get online.
    — Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • In the ever-expanding universe of obsolete sounds, few can compare to the confident yawp of a dial-up modem.
    — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2025
  • An actual floppy disk drive for old games would have been rad, though, as would a crusty 28K modem to use for dial-up internet.
    — Mitch Wallace, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
  • The problem was his town of 1,400 people had only dial-up internet service.
    — Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Some smaller internet providers continue to offer dial-up today.
    — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • This is only the latest word for forms of emotional manipulation that have plagued the online world since the days of dial-up internet.
    — Roger J. Kreuz, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • But similar to dial-up internet, AOL is also a shell of itself.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2025

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