collect call
Example Sentences
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Although her children could be heard in the background of a March 20 collect call obtained by People, she referenced them being taken from her custody in another call two days later.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
A teaser for director Geno McDermott’s film opens with chilling audio of a collect call Hernandez made to his fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2019
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
The officers allowed her to make a collect call on the coinless cellblock pay phone.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2016
“Operator, I want to make a collect call to Louis Gaither.”
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
