How to Use landline in a Sentence

landline

noun

• From the art on the walls, to the desk in the window, to the landline phone, no detail was left untouched.
  — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Nov. 2021
• The system can send alerts to cell phones and call landlines.
  — Molly Walsh | [e-mail], cleveland, 1 Sep. 2023
• The only way to reach Todd Snider is to call his landline.
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2023
• The basic unit connects to a landline and has a range of 1,300 feet.
  — Dallas News, 22 Nov. 2022
• Inside the kitchen, the landline phone was missing, and the shelves were nearly bare.
  — Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 9 May 2023
• The poll was taken by landline and cell phone last week.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2022
• The phone would have the same phone number as any other landline phones in your home.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 25 Apr. 2023
• If a landline isn't available, a cell phone can be used.
  — Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 5 June 2023
• The poll ran from July 5-11 using landline, cell-phone and text-to-web.
  — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 14 July 2022
• This town has one landline telephone in the entire town.
  — Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 25 Jan. 2022
• Falling in line with both of the past episodes, Swift spoke the title into a red landline phone.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2022
• Desks are covered in a thin layer of dust, a landline phone lays upside on the ground.
  — Cnn Staff, CNN, 4 Aug. 2022
• The cell phone/landline poll was conducted Sept. 29 through Oct. 2.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2022
• That pesky landline ringing off the hook — who even has those anymore?
  — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2022
• The same was true in the landline age, when there was a dedicated circuit for each phone call.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
• In the era of landlines, a PR/TT meant getting a record of all the incoming and outgoing calls from a phone.
  — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
• Much like cassette players and VCRs, landline telephones have mostly gone the way of the dinosaurs.
  — Brittany Anas, House Beautiful, 10 July 2023
• The teacher walks out of the video’s frame and returns a few seconds later to find the student attempting to use the landline to make a call.
  — Fox News, 23 Nov. 2021
• Binders of staff phone numbers, landline phones and old fax machines were dusted off.
  — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022
• The survey was conducted via landline, cellphone and text-to-web.
  — Alexandra Marquez, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2022
• This reverse phone lookup service works with just a landline or cell phone number.
  — Dallas News, 22 Sep. 2022
• In the original Scream, the biggest scares came when someone answered a landline.
  — Medea Giordano, Wired, 30 Oct. 2021
• The survey was conducted via cellphone, landline and SMS-to-web.
  — Alexandra Marquez, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2022
• Each October, in the early hours of some mid-month morning, Don DeLillo’s landline should ring.
  — Josh Zajdman, Town & Country, 30 Dec. 2022
• The cellphone/landline poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2022
• Pons said her family was no longer able to reach her aunt’s landline, and though some neighbors tried to check on her, no one was successful.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Instead, my pantry is filled with mohawks, landline cords, and fat little pumpkins.
  — Kendra Vaculin, Bon Appétit, 25 Sep. 2023
• After a protracted fight, the landline bill passed during the final hours of the spring legislative session.
  — Ray Long, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2022
• In the United States, the shift away from copper landlines will most likely impact people over age 65 and small business owners.
  — Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
• McGrath called her parents from the McMurdo landline each day.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 25 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024