long-distance call
Example Sentences
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I wasn’t allowed to make a long distance call without asking my mother.
From Salon • Feb. 9, 2019
As Joan brilliantly said of Don, during her very long distance call to her husband – I’m paraphrasing – “he thinks he is the first guy to marry his 25-year-old secretary.”
From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2010
Even worse, says Illinois Bell, are the companies that use the no-toll long distance call to transact business.
From Time Magazine Archive
He invites them to his table and puts in a long distance call for his sister in Los Angeles. who turns out to be Hardy's wife.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now, that good-for-nothing newspaper friend of my daughter’s is downstairs putting through a long distance call so that you can talk to your father before you leave here.
From Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border by Carr, Annie Roe
