telephone

"People trying to find phone reception, wondering where things were, and there was a huge queue at the one working telephone box."

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

Dr Beverly Adams, Divisional Medical Director for Maternity and Women's Services, said a centralised telephone triage service with a midwife would help determine the most appropriate place for each woman to give birth.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

The harness carried a telephone with video instructions for attaching himself with carabiners to the winch of the drone that would transport him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

As she played a game of telephone with the clinics, Vanessa ran into a complexity inherent to contraceptive research and development, itself a direly underfunded field.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

When he’d said “lines,” my vocabulary was still in the mindset of being a telephone operator.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

When the fire alerts sounded on telephones, "I thought everything was going to burn, the house and everything," she said at the sports hall, where they sat dozing and eating snacks.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

Pakistan has so far walked the tightrope between Iran and the US, passing messages between the two sides, hosting foreign ministers from other concerned Muslim nations and hitting the diplomatic telephones.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

The U.S. government broke up AT&T in 1982 because a company owning phone lines and telephones was anticompetitive.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 19, 2025

He celebrated the wave of innovations that had enriched human existence—railroads, steamships, telegraphs, telephones, electric lights, anesthetics, antiseptics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Generals grabbed hold of telephones and shouted orders to everyone they could think of.

From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl

Sheinbaum, who is opposed to unilateral military action on Mexican soil, quickly telephoned Trump.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Kawther describes an agonising wait on the day the children were due to arrive until finally Unicef telephoned.

From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2025

At some point in the ’70s or ’80s, Kauffman said, his brother telephoned him for a brief chat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024

According to testimony from a former agriculture official, Menendez telephoned one day to order him to stand down in his efforts to oppose the monopoly.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

Then Vaughan telephoned the new Osage County sheriff to say that he had all the information he needed and that he was rushing back on the first train.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

In her book, Harris recounts the hours after Biden’s sudden withdrawal, when she began telephoning top Democrats around the country to lock in their support.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2025

The brothers raced up to their high-rise office and tried telephoning her.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2023

The Department for the Economy's careers service is also operating an extended service on Thursday and Friday online or by telephoning 0300 200 7820.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2022

Haney works as a contact tracer for Loudoun, telephoning people who, typically unwittingly, were recently near a person whose test results for the virus came back positive.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2021

“Mrs. Nwizu will soon stop telephoning to tell me she saw him there,” her mother said.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie