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Recent Examples of telephoneVisitors can play with a tin can telephone or connect to the museum’s general store on a working candlestick phone.—Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 24 Nov. 2024 Anyone with information is asked to telephone the sheriff’s department at (323) 890-5500.—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024 Gale Kiplinger recalled his big brother telephoning him close to midnight, saying Dewy would lose.—Rob Wells / Made By History, TIME, 25 Sep. 2024 Some investors sent telegrams or telephoned, complaining about the wrong prediction.—Rob Wells / Made By History, TIME, 25 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for telephone
Mary Kay Letourneau violates her parole to reunite with Vili Fualaau
On the evening of Feb. 2, 1998, Fualaau phoned Letourneau, and early the next morning, they were found in her car.
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Nicole Pomarico,
People.com,
20 May 2025
Within a few hours of Leavitt’s remarks, Trump phoned Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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