Example sentences for: telephone

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

  • Last year, about 7,200 people were given quick legal advice over the telephone and by email, but that number may drop by 1,000 to 2,000 with the staff cuts this year, Mandel said.

  • In Britain, when a numeral is repeated in, say, a telephone, credit-card, house, or other number, the word double is used to describe it: thus, for instance, the VERBATIM telephone in Aylesbury, 395880 , would be uttered as, three, nine, five, double-eight, oh (or zero, but oh is more common).

  • The act allows local phone companies to provide video programming to homes (whether via cable, wireless, or through telephone lines), and it lets phone and cable companies in most local markets own up to 10 percent of one another.

  • The lobby’s 360-degree mural celebrates the proletarian history of the telephone.

  • The opposite of communication by electronic mail, voicemail, or straight telephone talk.


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