Examples of pay phone in a Sentence
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For instance, visitors to the Budapest Retro Museum, which opened in 2021, can pick up the receiver of an old pay phone and dial a number to hear a typical communist-era joke, in which infamous Soviet leader Joseph Stalin visits a potato farm.
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Alice Popovici, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024
His whole eclipse day is banal (soda fountain, pay phone, the price of things) but also tempting, literally surreal, and like a dream.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2024
In October 2018, the West Covina Police Department got a pay phone call from a woman at an Arco gas station alleging Elwyn employees were abusing a man matching Newman’s description — a Black man with a disability.
—Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
There is still an operating pay phone located in the hallway at the IRS building.
—Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
The hacks reportedly used a technique known as SIM swapping—in which threat actors trick or pay phone carrier personnel to transfer a target’s phone number to a new SIM card.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2023
Nobody’s going to stop you from really, truly doing anything on a pay phone right now, or a newspaper stand, or – in certain areas – a pothole.
—Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2024
There was a request for a subway car, a pay phone, a model of Willie’s Burgers in Williamsburg.
—Liza Weisstuch, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
Being there again, Bowling noticed an inset in a wall where there once was a pay phone that students used to call home.
—Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
Alice Popovici, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024
His whole eclipse day is banal (soda fountain, pay phone, the price of things) but also tempting, literally surreal, and like a dream.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2024
In October 2018, the West Covina Police Department got a pay phone call from a woman at an Arco gas station alleging Elwyn employees were abusing a man matching Newman’s description — a Black man with a disability.
—Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
There is still an operating pay phone located in the hallway at the IRS building.
—Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
The hacks reportedly used a technique known as SIM swapping—in which threat actors trick or pay phone carrier personnel to transfer a target’s phone number to a new SIM card.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2023
Nobody’s going to stop you from really, truly doing anything on a pay phone right now, or a newspaper stand, or – in certain areas – a pothole.
—Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2024
There was a request for a subway car, a pay phone, a model of Willie’s Burgers in Williamsburg.
—Liza Weisstuch, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
Being there again, Bowling noticed an inset in a wall where there once was a pay phone that students used to call home.
—Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
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“Pay phone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pay%20phone. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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