telephone

Example Sentences

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From an Iowa farm family that came west in a covered wagon, Con Keeler had grown up tinkering with radios and could cobble together crude bugs using telephone and hearing aid parts.

From Los Angeles Times

Some jobs take months of training or an artist’s attention to detail; others require the physical strength and stamina to climb telephone poles in summer heat.

From The Wall Street Journal

“A telephone directory! Do you have a London telephone directory?”

From Literature

It is hard to claw your way to the top and stay there, Grisham said, in a telephone interview from the home he shares with his wife Renee and a rescue dog named Wiley.

From The Wall Street Journal

These days, most purchases are made through bank cards or via telephone apps linked to personal accounts.

From Los Angeles Times