How to Use on the telephone in a Sentence

on the telephone

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• Now, on the telephone, these three men agreed that such words were not just a mockery, but a taunt.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
• Getting a customer service agent on the telephone can take a while.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
• There were the friends who used to visit, but were suddenly just voices on the telephone.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• In Fodor’s, a mongoose voiced by Neil Gaiman calls him on the telephone.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 July 2023
• To my surprise, Fowler said Giovanni had agreed to speak with me on the telephone.
  — Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2024
• The Rosenbergs said advice on the telephone wouldn’t help much if their son was hurting a sibling or them.
  — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 6 June 2024
• Bidding is available in person, online, on the telephone, or via a commission pre-bid.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 19 Mar. 2024
• There’s Labi Siffre’s softly ecstatic voice, singing about talking on the telephone.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Jan. 2023
• It was suggested that Gary and his roommate could secretly record Catherine on the telephone.
  — CBS News, 30 Apr. 2022
• Life magazine showed a teenager lounging in a fallout shelter and sipping on a Coke while chatting on the telephone.
  — Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 31 May 2024
• Nobody wanted to talk on the telephone anymore, but chefs and restaurant managers didn’t exactly know how to build their own websites and payment portals.
  — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
• And Ridley no doubt heard what Whan had to say Wednesday, if the two have not already discussed the issue on the telephone.
  — New York Times, 15 June 2022
• Davis and Shaw talked with Mark Martin nightly on the telephone, gathering tips and direction.
  — Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2025
• The collection features fun things for children and seniors to do together in person, on the telephone or via video conferencing.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2020
• According to Lee, the pair spent six weeks talking on the telephone before Anderson finally agreed to hang out.
  — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 27 Jan. 2023
• In the shots, the young couple were captured snuggling on a couch, hanging out and enjoying drinks at the home’s bar, relaxing in an armchair and chatting on the telephone.
  — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2023
• It could be argued that someone who is on the telephone, for example, would be temporarily excused as long as the primary host was free to welcome the visitors.
  — Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2020
• About five weeks after Harry's death, still wondering how Harry had been infected, Sandy was talking with her aunt on the telephone.
  — Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2010
• Babs Osborne, huddled on the telephone in the doorkeeper’s cubicle, was attempting, yet again, to get through to Stanislaus.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
• Western Union scoffed at the idea of buying the patent on the telephone from Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.
  — Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2022
• There was an almost indescribable aura with both him and the music, a regal perch that shines through Instagram photos and brief conversations on the telephone.
  — Marcus J. Moore, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2022
• She has not been allowed to speak with anyone on the telephone or have visitors outside of her medical team, social workers, and her previous lawyer, Reddington said.
  — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Feb. 2023
• Murphy completed a casting application online and then spoke with a casting representative on the telephone and submitted videos to get the audition.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 23 June 2021
• When Mom reached Dad on the telephone in the White House pantry to commiserate over the earth-shattering news, Dad’s response was disbelieving.
  — John Wrory Ficklin, Time, 11 Feb. 2026
• An Indian American engineer says he was fired last year from his long-time job with a Huntsville missile defense contractor after he was heard speaking Hindi on the telephone.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [email protected], al, 31 July 2023
• By filming Mullin speaking to his performance coach about his axing in a coffee shop as Palmer chats to his father, Andy, on the telephone, the producers got far more than would surely have been the case with a more formal interview to camera.
  — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 27 June 2025
• Booth’s descriptions of Bell’s passionate courtship of his student Mabel Hubbard, who belonged to a much higher social class, are as stirring as a romance novel, and her narrative of his work on the telephone reads like a thriller.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2021
• Discussions that previously took place at conferences, on the telephone or in revision notes on manuscripts moved to social media platforms such as Twitter, review sites such as PubPeer and all-hours Zoom rooms.
  — Joseph Bak-Coleman, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2022
• As Gomez’s condition worsened, Cuahquentzi — who is staying with her mother in Tlaxcala until the immigration matter is settled — spent her days on the telephone speaking with his friends and nurses to understand the situation.
  — Stacy St. Clair, Chicago Tribune, 22 Nov. 2022
• The National Taxpayer Advocate, an independent watchdog within the agency, found that delays in processing paper returns have been running six months to one year, and taxpayers are experiencing longer wait times on the telephone.
  — CBS News, 22 June 2022