Example sentences for: long-distance

How can you use “long-distance” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Myelin may encourage directed, long-distance growth by restricting it to a parallel orientation.

  • It was the center of a recently shut-down Internet porn scam that charged unwitting customers, mainly Americans, the cost of a long-distance call to Moldova when they downloaded dirty pictures.

  • The new company formed by MCI-Worldcom and Sprint will control about 30 percent of the U.S. long-distance market--second to AT&T's 45 percent--and at $200 billion will be the biggest telecom in the world, says the Wall Street Journal . The merger marks the increasing importance of wireless networks and data-voice integration.

  • The drafters of the law expected these provisions to leave the Baby Bells facing a variety of competitors : wireless services, small startup local service providers, cable and utility companies (who own valuable rights of way), other Baby Bells--and, perhaps most importantly, long-distance companies such as AT&T.

  • AT&T and MCI have protested the tax and pledged to pass the cost on to consumers: MCI charges 5 percent on all out of state long-distance calls, and AT&T charges a flat rate.


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