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

And fortunately there was a phone book inside of it.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 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

I mean, she could just look up Minny Jackson on Tick Road in the phone book and get my address.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett