long-distance call

Example Sentences

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What time do you make a long-distance call home?’”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2023

In the summer of 1977, two years after that first long-distance call, having negotiated the initial Doze homestead settlement, Paul Barrett finally flew to the Wrangell Mountains to see the family secret for himself.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2022

Somebody came up and told me I had a long-distance call at the front desk.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 28, 2020

After decades of recording phone call costs it reported the average long-distance call in 2006 cost just 6 cents per minute.

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2019

I went to a pay phone, but I wasn’t sure where to put the money or exactly how to make a long-distance call.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola