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

Then, a few days later, when calling home from a public telephone, he heard a familiar accent from another booth.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2021

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

Would leaving at three o’clock in the morning provide enough time to get to a public telephone and call me by shortly before five?

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse