collect call

Example Sentences

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“Here it is like 10 o’clock at night, who’s answering the phone? A collect call at that?”

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2020

At the beginning of “The Rain People,” Natalie makes a collect call to her husband from the Pennsylvania Turnpike, saying she has to get away.

From Washington Post • Mar. 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

The officers allowed her to make a collect call on the coinless cellblock pay phone.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2016

I said, “Not yet. Big Ma hasn’t gotten over the collect call from yesterday. We gotta get up enough dimes to make a real call across the country.”

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia