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
Everyone knows that, if he remains awake until midnight, he may make a long distance call at one-fourth the price of the daytime charge.
From Time Magazine Archive
By paying for the long distance call, any broadcaster in the land can telephone Grand Island, have his station's frequency corrected free in three minutes.
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
