Examples of answering service in a Sentence
The doctor is not in the office now, but you can reach her answering service at this number if you have an emergency.
Recent Examples on the Web
An answering service for patients who call when the office isn’t open.
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Darin Oswald, Idaho Statesman, 11 Apr. 2024
Patients affected were provided with a hotline number to call with questions and concerns, which is an answering service that asks callers to leave a name and phone number.
—Melissa Brown, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
Her clinic’s answering service called her three times while she was being diagnosed; her husband, Mike Becher, had to take away her phone.
—Oliver Whang Maddie McGarvey, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2022
He’s maintained his longtime job working the late shift for an answering service, and he’s taken up cooking.
—BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2021
That neurologist wasn’t on call, she was told by the answering service, but someone would call her back.
—Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
Ruby provides a centralized answering service for medical practices, law firms, repair services and other businesses too small to have their own operators.
—oregonlive, 12 May 2022
Unable to afford an answering service, Clint notes, Rance and Jean saw to it that one or the other was always home to receive calls about acting jobs.
—Peter Tonguette, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
Meanwhile, Jeana called Holmes’s answering service and left the number.
—Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
Darin Oswald, Idaho Statesman, 11 Apr. 2024
Patients affected were provided with a hotline number to call with questions and concerns, which is an answering service that asks callers to leave a name and phone number.
—Melissa Brown, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
Her clinic’s answering service called her three times while she was being diagnosed; her husband, Mike Becher, had to take away her phone.
—Oliver Whang Maddie McGarvey, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2022
He’s maintained his longtime job working the late shift for an answering service, and he’s taken up cooking.
—BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2021
That neurologist wasn’t on call, she was told by the answering service, but someone would call her back.
—Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
Ruby provides a centralized answering service for medical practices, law firms, repair services and other businesses too small to have their own operators.
—oregonlive, 12 May 2022
Unable to afford an answering service, Clint notes, Rance and Jean saw to it that one or the other was always home to receive calls about acting jobs.
—Peter Tonguette, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
Meanwhile, Jeana called Holmes’s answering service and left the number.
—Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
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“Answering service.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/answering%20service. Accessed 17 Apr. 2024.
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