collect call

Example Sentences

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An art project called the Goodbye Line prompts passersby to make a collect call and say goodbye — to a loved one, a pet or maybe a part of themselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

Company product managers discussed testing new features to collect call logs on Android smartphones in a way that might have made it harder for users to understand what they were giving away.

From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2018

At long last, my client was allowed to make a tearful, five-minute collect call to his wife, in which he confirmed that he was alive and that he would be deported the next day.

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2017

In particular, he said a collect call McCullough made from the Rockford post office on the night when Maria disappeared showed that it would have been impossible for McCullough to have abducted the girl.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 5, 2016

“Operator, I want to make a collect call to Louis Gaither.”

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia