How to Use telephone in a Sentence

telephone

1 of 2 noun
Definition of telephonenext
Synonyms for telephonenext
  • I left the telephone off the hook.
  • You can order the cake over the telephone.
  • He slammed down the telephone.
  • She picked up the telephone and dialed the number.
  • I just have to make a quick telephone call before we leave.
  • They hired someone to answer the telephones.
  • The telephone has been ringing all morning!
  • All our telephones are cordless.
  • There were World War II relics such as medic bags, a field telephone and helmets.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • One widespread story at the time was that Gagosian liked to make lewd telephone calls to women.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Naturally, the telephone and things like Skype are more or less trying to do the same thing.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2023
  • There was a flurry of telephone calls between adults: The camp director and the girl’s mother.
    — Ellen Barry, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The parents/legal guardians of the Grand Prize winners will be notified by telephone and e-mail.
    — TIME.com, 3 July 2023
  • Both they — and customers — have been known to hold up transactions merely to attend to a telephone.
    — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Two characters will have a pivotal moment, and then someone else will bust in, or the telephone will ring.
    — Emma Rathbone, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Much like the rumor about Willie Bennett shared by a few teens in a Mission Hill smoke session, this, too, was a perverse game of telephone.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 19 Mar. 2024
  • When calling through a telephone, press No. 9 in the application.
    — Detroit Free Press, 31 July 2023
  • This game of controversy telephone is longer than even Stiller himself can keep track of.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The top military commanders of Ukraine and the US spoke by telephone on Saturday.
    — Bloomberg News, Bloomberg.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • They must be placed by telephone call or at a venue, such as a bar, casino or betting shop, which is a storefront where people can place bets.
    — Alex Russell, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The poll was conducted by telephone from Nov. 30 to Dec. 4 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
    — Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The telephone survey, which took place over 20 days this month, has a margin of error of 4 percentage points, according to Gallup.
    — Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • There are advantages to having a central home telephone that anyone can use, such as letting a child call 911.
    — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Telecom giants knew lead from their telephone cables was leaching into the soil and water for decades and haven’t done anything about it.
    — Stat Staff, STAT, 29 Dec. 2023
  • In the late 19th century, there were widespread concerns about the telephone’s potential to cause deafness.
    — Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Western Union immediately went on to use said patent and create their own version of the telephone.
    — WIRED, 10 Mar. 2023
  • These channels can also hold pipes, telephone cables, and electric wiring.
    — Sarah Engel, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Long, long ago, before the advent of the cellular telephone, Miss Manners declared the telephone to be a rude instrument.
    — Judith Martin, oregonlive, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Stahl spoke by telephone from a space telescope conference in Baltimore timed to mark the anniversary.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 12 July 2023
  • Accusations flew on Tuesday’s episode of The Valley after a broken game of telephone led to a misunderstanding among the group.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2024
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telephone

2 of 2 verb
  • He telephoned me to say that he was going to be late.
  • He telephoned to say that he was going to be late.
  • You never write or telephone.
  • The brothers raced up to their high-rise office and tried telephoning her.
    — Dan Barry, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The Globe has e-mailed the defendants in the lawsuit or telephoned them seeking a response.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • And their parents had to telephone the witch to arrange for her visit.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Dec. 2020
  • A teacher in the classroom where Mead worked and didn’t show up had a feeling and telephoned police.
    — Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 26 Feb. 2017
  • After the service, Jamal, now 28, telephoned him to hang out with friends.
    — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2018
  • In addition, the union alleged on Monday, managers are telephoning pilots in the run-up to the vote to urge them to oust the union.
    — Josh Eidelson, latimes.com, 1 May 2018
  • The auction expired with no bids and later Tomb telephoned the seller in Florida to see whether the car was still for sale.
    — Vern Parker, Houston Chronicle, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Two of the combatants, one a Republican, the other a Democrat, telephoned him from a bar.
    — The Economist, 22 July 2017
  • On one occasion, an agent telephoned Clyne and asked to purchase two handguns.
    — Ruth Brown, idahostatesman, 15 Aug. 2017
  • His abrupt reversal came after Ms. Pelosi telephoned Mr. Trump to ask for a delay.
    — New York Times, 24 June 2019
  • The Taylors’ family members have not been able to visit or telephone them.
    — Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Vice President Joe Biden telephoned and gave him his home phone number.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The clinician talks to school staff, surveys the child, then telephones a child psychiatrist and relays the findings.
    — courier-journal.com, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Luchsinger, 75, fired a shot at one of the trespassers while Mackay, 69, desperately telephoned her son Jorge Andres.
    — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2017
  • One of them, a tax attorney named Gordon, was coaxed onto stage for the purpose of publicly telephoning his wife.
    — Louis Bayard, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Walsh was roused from his brief disappointment when the gossip columnist Louella Parsons telephoned him to learn more about the film project.
    — Richard Sandomir, SI.com, 21 June 2017
  • Other supporters leaked word that Trump -- and his chief of staff, John Kelly -- had telephoned Pruitt to offer support.
    — Bloomberg News, NOLA.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Lodie telephoned another friend, prompting a group that included Iacoviello to come to the field.
    — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • On the eve of the invasion, Zelensky had tried to telephone Putin to appeal for negotiations, but the Russian leader would not take the call.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2022
  • German commanders in the invasion area telephoned for permission to bring up the First Panzer Corps, which was northwest of Paris.
    — Time, 6 June 2019
  • Many customers who had emailed or telephoned the Sun Sentinel for help saw their power restored Sunday night or Monday.
    — Marcia Heroux Pounds, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Star file photo That was a reference to Hunt, the late founder and then-owner of the franchise, resorting to telephoning Stram to tell him he was fired after the declining Chiefs had gone 5-9.
    — Vahe Gregorian, kansascity, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Any members of the Kuykendahl location can telephone the Town Center gym with questions on how to switch membership.
    — Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, 17 June 2020
  • Which is how a transient hurler would come to intrude upon this Manhattan lawyer’s life, telephoning tauntingly from the French Riviera in a yearslong game of cat and mouse.
    — Dan Greene, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • In the Montgomery County incident, police said a faculty member told police that a threat had been telephoned to the middle school.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 7 June 2018
  • There’s some evidence that online scammers target younger people, while older adults are more likely to answer the phone, opening the door to telephone scams.
    — Annaliese Griffin, Fortune, 29 July 2022
  • As the storm gained intensity, a desperate Andrade telephoned her sister, Yesmin Andrade Rodríguez, 37, from the wavering craft.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023

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