Words similar to phoning

Example sentences for: phoning

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

An individual phoning Zammar's house on February 17, 1999, was told that he was away on a trip to a distant, "bad" region, but that "people" at 54 Marienstrasse knew where he was.
Gore continued his scare campaign by phoning Washington Post Executive Editor Len Downie to complain that a photo the Post had run of the big-blue-marble Earth was upside down!
You might suggest that she separate the activities of eating and phoning.
The NYT 's account doesn't mention the phoning and the spritzing, which makes the whole episode utterly incomprehensible.
(Here in the Bay Area, I've been to more than one eating establishment with signs explicitly forbidding the use of cell phones, but have yet to see the appearance of phoning sections.)