hold the phone
Example Sentences
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The process is simple: Take a face selfie, scan the passport photo page and hold the phone against the inside of the passport’s back cover to read the embedded chip.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2023
He will have a bit of a dip at me and I'll hold the phone away from my ear while he has his rant.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2023
Shiv says when her estranged husband offers to hold the phone up to Logan's ear, before uttering some of the saddest words she's ever said: "Are you just being nice to me?"
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2023
As long as a sale is happening, we will hold the phone — and happily.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2022
If Grandma Sands won the batde we’d have to hold the phone away from our ear while she shouted, “ ’Lona, you call this a bad child?
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
