collect call
Example Sentences
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“Here it is like 10 o’clock at night, who’s answering the phone? A collect call at that?”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2020
A teaser for director Geno McDermott’s film opens with chilling audio of a collect call Hernandez made to his fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2019
Company product managers discussed testing new features to collect call logs on Android smartphones in a way that might have made it harder for users to understand what they were giving away.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2018
Lydia: On this we certainly agree: That glimpse of Jessa and Shoshanna watching “Scandal” and failing to accept a collect call from Hannah was not nearly enough of the girls for me.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2015
I said, “Not yet. Big Ma hasn’t gotten over the collect call from yesterday. We gotta get up enough dimes to make a real call across the country.”
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
