pay phone
Example Sentences
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JR Vansant, who lives with his mother in suburban Long Island, N.Y., turns penny-stock holdings into a fortune, using postal orders and calls from a school pay phone to conceal that he is still in sixth grade.
He hurried down a dark road to a nearby café, hoping to use the pay phone to call his wife.
From Literature
He knew to call from a pay phone.
From Literature
I remember sad Bob Seger on a pay phone in a hallway talking to somebody — like, “I’m headed to Michigan, where I should be a god, but I’m opening for Bachman-Turner Overdrive.”
From Los Angeles Times
I went to a pay phone and called a Chrysler expert I knew about.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
