collect call
Example Sentences
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Although her children could be heard in the background of a March 20 collect call obtained by People, she referenced them being taken from her custody in another call two days later.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
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
At long last, my client was allowed to make a tearful, five-minute collect call to his wife, in which he confirmed that he was alive and that he would be deported the next day.
From Slate • Apr. 2, 2017
In particular, he said a collect call McCullough made from the Rockford post office on the night when Maria disappeared showed that it would have been impossible for McCullough to have abducted the girl.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 5, 2016
Big Ma wouldn’t be happy about the cost of the collect call, but I doubted Papa minded.
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
