Telephone

//ˈtɛl.ɪˌfəʊn//

"Telephone" in a Sentence (17 examples)

Could you dial for me? The telephone is too high.

You need not telephone me.

I forget your telephone number.

Had I known your telephone number, I would have called you.

Your telegram arrived just as I was about to telephone you.

I couldn't call you; the telephone was out of order.

Be sure to telephone by Friday, OK?

Before long, we'll be able to communicate with each other by T.V. telephone.

What is the emergency telephone number?

The engineer climbed the telephone pole.

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And since the spring of 1995, no game of telephone has ended without some Simpsons-loving smart-ass dropping “purple monkey dishwasher” into the chain.

In other words, Jones' career and life may have been derailed because a game of telephone went bad.

“I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ? Why didn’t I telephone ? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”

Having completed their task, Fireman Page telephoned from a lineside box to the next signal cabin, briefly reported the incident and said that, as no high explosive had dropped and the track was safe, they proposed proceeding "at caution".

The length ganger saw the train passing with the van derailed and promptly telephoned the Sandbach signalman, who restored his signals to danger, but not in time to stop the train before the final derailment occurred.

He telephoned what he knew to his chief[.]

David telephoned his apologies to his mother.

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