Examples of telephone tag in a Sentence

We've been playing telephone tag—she's always out when I call, and vice versa.

Recent Examples on the Web Not that there aren’t plenty of excuses for slipping up, given the immensity of the task and its attendant glitches – the outdated lists, the telephone tag, the last-minute head-count changes. — Mary Beth Mccauley, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2019

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“Telephone tag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telephone%20tag. Accessed 13 Aug. 2022.

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