telephone directory

Example Sentences

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DNS acts as a kind of telephone directory for the internet, instructing machines on how to find each other.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

"I had Judi Dench and Maggie Smith - I could have shot the telephone directory with those two," he recalls.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2024

Soon after his arrival, my best friend and I were circling the quarterback’s picture in the student telephone directory.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2024

He stalled by reading from the Washington telephone directory and giving his colleagues his recipes for “pot-likker,” corn bread, and turnip greens.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016

When her father put the receiver down, Mary Anne, whispering a tuneless half-remembered melody, thumbed through the telephone directory, and with her pen, marked the number of the Ravenel Air Station’s Officers’ Club.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy