telephone company

Example Sentences

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New York City’s telephone company in 1886 published the first Yellow Pages directory of business phone numbers—creating a nearly friction-free way for merchants and customers to find one another.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025

Now aged 40 and a telephone company employee, Klaoudatou is earning the same money - 850 euros a month - she did as a 20- year-old supermarket worker in 2004.

From Reuters • May 15, 2023

“It was a labor of love,” Amstein said, “mostly done by retired, or in some cases long-serving, telephone company employees.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2023

For Seth Rogen’s character, a woeful carpenter, Moe made a longish mullet modeled on his own father, who worked for a Wisconsin telephone company in the ‘80s and ‘90s.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2022

The visit with the neighbor, the telephone company, the conversation at the train yard.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse