public telephone
Example Sentences
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Over the next five years, Mr. Pelton maintained clandestine contact with Soviet agents, using a public telephone at a Northern Virginia pizza joint for prearranged phone calls and traveling overseas to Vienna for debriefings.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2022
All public events are included, such as quick comments on the South Lawn, short exchanges with reporters and all public speeches, radio addresses and even public telephone calls to astronauts in space.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2022
If another person arrives at a public telephone just before you, find the probability that you will have to wait more than five minutes.
From Textbooks ● Nov. 29, 2017
There were no cell phones, no way to make a collect call from a public telephone.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2013
“One coffee, black,” she tells the uniformed waiter, then heads for the public telephone.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
