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
Rooney and his friend Dave Woodman, a fellow animator, met Caselotti after finding her information in the phone book.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2025
It’s astounding that Apple failed to realize that audiences will watch George Clooney and Brad Pitt read the phone book, so long as they do it together, and truncated “Wolfs’” stay in theaters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
Even though she’s not in the phone book, she must still be around here somewhere.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
