collect call

Example Sentences

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“They got a phone right there that you get to use, but once again it’s a collect call from a payphone,” Harris, 35, said in an interview.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2020

In particular, he said a collect call McCullough made from the Rockford post office on the night when Maria disappeared showed that it would have been impossible for McCullough to have abducted the girl.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 5, 2016

The officers allowed her to make a collect call on the coinless cellblock pay phone.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2016

Each time you click a streaming radio channel, or download a podcast, it’s as though you’re making a collect call.

From Slate • Dec. 14, 2014

Big Ma wouldn’t be happy about the cost of the collect call, but I doubted Papa minded.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia