pay phone
Example Sentences
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At one point, he said, his telephone service was turned off, forcing him use a pay phone for calls.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
I went to a pay phone and called a Chrysler expert I knew about.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2025
As Chesnoff talks in the “Jinx” episode, red carpet footage from the “All Good Things” premiere briefly appears, as do clips of Lehrman posing as Katie and making a call from a pay phone.
From New York Times • May 12, 2024
A light caught my eye, shining on a relic of a bygone analog era: a pay phone, housed under a Whidbey Telecom cover.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2023
I got two dollars’ worth of change from this tiny liquor store that had bars on every window, walked over to a pay phone outside a bar playing old-school rock songs.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
