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

"I had Judi Dench and Maggie Smith - I could have shot the telephone directory with those two," he recalls.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2024

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

I contacted an acquaintance in America who helped me retrieve your address through a telephone directory in the library.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys