public telephone

Example Sentences

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He describes sleeping in parks and public telephone boxes at night in Cardiff.

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2025

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

Every day, members of the public telephone to report injured wildlife.

From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2018

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