phone book
Example Sentences
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The pair hired an undergraduate to comb through phone book listings for fast-food restaurants.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
A different email address - [email protected] - is listed in Epstein's phone book under a contact labelled "Duke of York", a previously released image showed.
From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025
It’s astounding that Apple failed to realize that audiences will watch George Clooney and Brad Pitt read the phone book, so long as they do it together, and truncated “Wolfs’” stay in theaters.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025
They were all looking for a man named Steven Reisner, whom they had been dating; somehow, none of them had ever gotten his phone number, so they had found me in the phone book.
From Slate • Oct. 29, 2024
Flipping through the Montgomery phone book, Sikora found a Q. P. Colvin still listed at the address mentioned in one of the old stories.
From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose
