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

Soon after his arrival, my best friend and I were circling the quarterback’s picture in the student telephone directory.

From Los Angeles Times

To track him down, he dialled the 75 Namjoshis he found in a telephone directory - but found no leads.

From BBC

“We called it the telephone directory,” his widow, Eda, told me.

From Washington Post

Back when telephone directories were common, the saying was “I’d listen to this narrator read the phone book.”

From Seattle Times