telephone directory

Example Sentences

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DNS acts as a kind of telephone directory for the internet, instructing machines on how to find each other.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

To track him down, he dialled the 75 Namjoshis he found in a telephone directory - but found no leads.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2023

The result was no-frills, but functional and inspiring enough to land on the cover of the telephone directory and nab design awards.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2016

He stalled by reading from the Washington telephone directory and giving his colleagues his recipes for “pot-likker,” corn bread, and turnip greens.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016

And then the house will be occupied by strangers, and there will be no trace that they were ever there, no house to enter, no name in the telephone directory.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri