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
DNS, which stands for Domain Name System, is often likened to a phone book for the internet.
From BBC • Oct. 20, 2025
Some liken it to a thick phone book.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 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
Then she picked up the telephone, and she opened the phone book and telephoned the local police station.
From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
