Examples of telephone directory in a Sentence
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Soon after his arrival, my best friend and I were circling the quarterback’s picture in the student telephone directory.
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Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
Sergio Verdú of Princeton shows a Bell Labs telephone directory that listed some of Shannon’s coworkers in 1947.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 May 2016
Lumpkin’s personal telephone directory – written in pencil – still includes home phone numbers for Bryant, Jordan, former Ohio State coach Woody Hayes, former Penn State coach Joe Paterno, former USC coach John McKay and former Notre Dame coach Ara Parseghian among others.
—Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 5 Apr. 2021
Sears was founded in 1892 and virtually invented home shopping with a catalog as thick as Chicago’s telephone directory.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2022
The documents include pages from a 1945 Los Alamos telephone directory as a way of confirming the suspect’s lab employment.
—New York Times, 27 Jan. 2020
Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
Sergio Verdú of Princeton shows a Bell Labs telephone directory that listed some of Shannon’s coworkers in 1947.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 May 2016
Lumpkin’s personal telephone directory – written in pencil – still includes home phone numbers for Bryant, Jordan, former Ohio State coach Woody Hayes, former Penn State coach Joe Paterno, former USC coach John McKay and former Notre Dame coach Ara Parseghian among others.
—Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 5 Apr. 2021
Sears was founded in 1892 and virtually invented home shopping with a catalog as thick as Chicago’s telephone directory.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2022
The documents include pages from a 1945 Los Alamos telephone directory as a way of confirming the suspect’s lab employment.
—New York Times, 27 Jan. 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
1879, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of telephone directory was
in 1879
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“Telephone directory.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telephone%20directory. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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