trunk call
Example Sentences
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That would make it a trunk call - get it?
From Children's BBC • Jun. 25, 2012
In fairness to the Postal authorities he should have admitted that it was a trunk call.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919 by Various
When, twenty minutes later, Mr. Jeekes emerged from the trunk call telephone box in the club vestibule, his mouth was drooping at the corners and his hands trembled curiously.
From The Yellow Streak by Williams, Valentine
Then he asked the post-office for a trunk call to Paris, and after an hour's wait he was put in touch with the headquarters of the Europe Chronicle.
From Swirling Waters by Rittenberg, Max
A financial editor of a responsible journal does not talk freely with any unknown man who rings him up on a hasty trunk call.
From Swirling Waters by Rittenberg, Max
