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

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

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2023

But in a working life that stretched from the 1940s into the new millennium, Mandel amassed enough credits as arranger, composer and musician to fill a small telephone directory.

From The Guardian • Jul. 8, 2020

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

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