Yellow Pages

Example Sentences

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Facebook didn’t buy yellow pages or local newspapers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

Marianne Joan Elliott-Said found her stage name, Poly Styrene, running her finger through the yellow pages, she says in an on-camera interview circa 1976.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2022

It was tied into the advertising it was doing in the yellow pages.

From The Verge • Jun. 8, 2021

It started out as a simple program to track customer calls and marketing budgets, so their dads could figure out whether an ad in the yellow pages or on Google was worth their time.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2019

Every few days Mrs. Sen would open up the yellow pages, dial a number that she had ticked in the margin, and ask if there was any whole fish available.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri