public telephone

Example Sentences

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Over the next five years, Mr. Pelton maintained clandestine contact with Soviet agents, using a public telephone at a Northern Virginia pizza joint for prearranged phone calls and traveling overseas to Vienna for debriefings.

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2022

All public events are included, such as quick comments on the South Lawn, short exchanges with reporters and all public speeches, radio addresses and even public telephone calls to astronauts in space.

From Salon • Aug. 10, 2022

If another person arrives at a public telephone just before you, find the probability that you will have to wait more than five minutes.

From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017

There were no cell phones, no way to make a collect call from a public telephone.

From BBC • Jul. 24, 2013

She’d turned the car around and driven over Mill Run into Amity Harbor, where she used the public telephone booth beside Petersen’s to call her husband and tell him.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson