phone call
Example Sentences
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“If a phone call is intimate and your conversations on a regular basis are snapshots of your face making funny images, then the idea of going into deep intimacy must be absolutely terrifying.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Or a woman taking a phone call on loudspeaker before scrolling at volume through her social feed.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Hussain Tantawi was woken by a frantic phone call from a neighbor at 3:25 a.m. on Sunday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Seydou Traore has been waiting four hours for the phone call that will change his life.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Soon after his private investigation of New Century, Park had a phone call from a penniless, jobless old college friend who had been offered several loans from banks to buy a house he couldn’t afford.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
