Meanings of rotary phone in English

Just an old-school black rotary phone sitting on one of the bedside tables.

Then I dialed an international number on the rotary phone.

They can all form a support group with the rotary phone and the horse-drawn buggy.

Instead of answering his question, she lifted her rotary phone and dialed a three-digit extension.

Then Mr. Mercer's ringtone, the shrill old-fashioned jangle of a rotary phone, broke through their conversation.

The phone rings- alight ,electronictrill, so unlike the old mechanical ring from their rotary phone.

Right? I'm pointing at the green-screen terminal on the desk, and the huge dial-infested rotary phone beside it.

Robin glances to the wall where their old rotary phone, with its long, coiled wire, used to hang.

But is it going to be, in other words, the difference between a black rotary phone and an iPhone?

Our question: Can we reasonably expect the highest court in the land to understand anything invented after the rotary phone?

LG: You talk a little bit about this on your website, but why did you decide to make this rotary phone?

Check out the retro-themed Alexander Bar, where drink orders can be placed on the vintage rotary phone installed at every table.

He was enamored with the technology of his youth, and waxed poetic about using a rotary phone to dial up his modem.

They furnish the room with old office furniture: a gray desk, three green file cabinets, a swivel wooden chair, a black rotary phone.

Though the White House had a highly competent technical staff, the rotary phone was simply incompatible with the modern wiring in the West Wing.

Obama represented the quick-text-message era, while McCain seemed to harken back to the old rotary phone (if you know what that is).