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
When her father put the receiver down, Mary Anne, whispering a tuneless half-remembered melody, thumbed through the telephone directory, and with her pen, marked the number of the Ravenel Air Station’s Officers’ Club.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
