collect call

Example Sentences

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“They got a phone right there that you get to use, but once again it’s a collect call from a payphone,” Harris, 35, said in an interview.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2020

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

But when he made the collect call to his mother, she was having none of it.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2014

Advocates of reform say that the rates prisoners pay to speak to their families are outrageous, and launched a petition earlier this year to have the FCC look at collect call rates within prisons.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2012

I picked up the phone and there was the recorded voice again, saying it was a collect call from Marcus Johnson.

From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks