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

It has been almost two weeks, and he still will not even answer the phone, possibly a collect call from Stockholm.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2016

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

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

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2014

Instead, a recording came on the line, saying, “This is a collect call from an inmate at the Massachusetts State Penitentiary...,” before another person chimed in.

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