Example sentences for: telephone

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

  • The first is pulse . This is the method used since the invention of the automatic telephone exchange by Strowger and others early in this century.

  • But in these days of all-digit telephone numbers, the tendency, particularly among younger people, who seem to get confused about such things, is to make certain that the word zero is used, rather than oh.

  • One US observer has claimed that non-standard features (grammer and vocabulary as well as accent) have the power to close off a conversation among strangers, bring job interviews to an abrupt end and, when used on the telephone, to render a flat advertised as vacant that morning suddenly to be declared “already let”.

  • The most widely used method is random-digit dialing, in which the first six digits of a telephone number are selected to allow for every region to be well represented, while the remaining four digits are dialed at random.

  • Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura(telephone code 928):


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