pay phone

Example Sentences

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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 • Oct. 22, 2025

I went to a pay phone and called a Chrysler expert I knew about.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2025

As Chesnoff talks in the “Jinx” episode, red carpet footage from the “All Good Things” premiere briefly appears, as do clips of Lehrman posing as Katie and making a call from a pay phone.

From New York Times • May 12, 2024

This Whidbey Island pay phone, I thought, would be my own makeshift wind phone.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2023

So I go to the pay phone in the front of the store, call the store’s number, and ask for personnel.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich