telephone
Example Sentences
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It was true that the Parrs subscribed to the telephone.
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"Google Translate entered into his telephone within a couple of minutes of them coming into shot details him telling her to 'unlock it', presumably her phone," she said.
From BBC
"But then they found messages on his telephone, and that was a whole different ball game."
From BBC
The room had a cavernous feeling despite the windows behind the desk—which was well-ordered with a blotter, a lamp, a telephone, and a wire basket of papers weighed down by a pair of scissors.
From Literature
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Our job was not in itself complicated: Answer the line, match the code name to a number, insert the right plug into the right jack, connect the telephone call.
From Literature
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