long-distance call

Example Sentences

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What time do you make a long-distance call home?’”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2023

Somebody came up and told me I had a long-distance call at the front desk.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 28, 2020

Satish Puri said Lamb, who was staying at the Hub Motel, had come to the night window at the office to ask to use the telephone for a long-distance call.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2020

After decades of recording phone call costs it reported the average long-distance call in 2006 cost just 6 cents per minute.

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2019

But it is a long-distance call from Greenville to Brooklyn, too much money and not enough time to explain that New York City is gray rock and quick-moving cars.

From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson