cold call

Example Sentences

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He’d never spoken to Wesley Yates III but was familiar enough with the guard from Beaumont, Texas, to cold call him in 2021 to offer a scholarship.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2025

"It was a cold call but we received a very warm reception, and Donald Trump has a photograph of us all on his office wall."

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2025

Did you just cold call her too, or did you know her previously?

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2023

“It’s not a cold call, but a quicker way to vulnerability and hitting the royal flush.”

From Washington Times • Mar. 23, 2023

The company’s marketing manager, Rajesh Rao, told me that he had just made a cold call to the VP for engineering of a U.S. company, trying to drum up business.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman