crank call

Example Sentences

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Soon, they started getting crank calls from strangers.

From Washington Post

Transit officials later explained that they had decided that wording was all but guaranteed to generate crank calls, since New Yorkers tend to regard one another and their possessions warily to begin with.

From New York Times

If Shelton is ultimately confirmed to the Fed by the full Senate, those crank calls would be coming from inside the house.

From Washington Post

He essentially crank calls the FTC’s lawyers with me in the room Monahan says he found the teen on the “backpack chats” and insinuates that the teen reached out to Monahan himself.

From The Verge

“A lot of those hair metal bands would leave their phone numbers on their ads. So we would crank call groups like Poison.”

From The Guardian