rotary

Next to the black rotary phone, which used to belong to Bozeman’s mother, a pink rock appeared one day with the words, “You are Beautiful.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

Inside the box is an old rotary telephone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

But what was once a small memorial is now just the base of an old rotary phone without the handset.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

There’s also an interfacing rotary selector in the center console for your dialing convenience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

There was a red rotary phone in the spare bedroom.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell

But he also sees a unique set of challenges in Boston, pointing to a city that’s “not gridded” and has “windy streets, poor weather, lots of roundabouts or rotaries, crazy intersections.”

From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2018

Little details would amaze him, like touch-tone phones that replaced the bulky rotaries everyone had used when he went away.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 4, 2015

Farther south along Main, past a couple more rotaries, you’ll find Manchester Village.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2014

Signs and public-service announcements have taught Americans how to negotiate their new rotaries.

From Economist ● Oct. 3, 2013

Toward noon the following day the express began to crawl cautiously out, with the rotaries still bucking ahead, through the great snow canyons.

From The Rim of the Desert by Ada Woodruff Anderson