phone book

Example Sentences

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The pair hired an undergraduate to comb through phone book listings for fast-food restaurants.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

A different email address - [email protected] - is listed in Epstein's phone book under a contact labelled "Duke of York", a previously released image showed.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025

Rooney and his friend Dave Woodman, a fellow animator, met Caselotti after finding her information in the phone book.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2025

They were all looking for a man named Steven Reisner, whom they had been dating; somehow, none of them had ever gotten his phone number, so they had found me in the phone book.

From Slate • Oct. 29, 2024

So I invented a Black Box Yellow Pages, which is a phone book that’s made out of the material that they make the black boxes on airplanes out of.

From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer