After my first trip to his place in Tucson we called one another on the telephone.
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Once a month he attaches a device to his chest, clamps metal bracelets on his wrists, and hooks the whole thing up to a telephone.
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“I grew up with Special Forces,” Shadman said during a telephone interview Wednesday.
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“I was a nobody there,” Sisler insisted in a telephone interview, during which he slurred his words and acknowledged he was drunk.
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“The clashes are ongoing—street battles,” he said in a telephone interview.
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Mrs. Palmer alone was absent from her guests, sitting at the telephone.
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Before supper she found, by half a dozen telephone calls, that Fern had fled to the Minniemashie House.
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Yes, but why didn't my mistress wire or telephone from wherever she is to let her maid know?
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After a series of unsuccessful inquiries over the telephone, I set out to make personal investigation.
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I'll telephone Washington and have some men with apparatus sent right down from the Bureau of Standards.
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British Dictionary definitions for telephone
telephone
/ (ˈtɛlɪˌfəʊn) /
noun
Also called: telephone setan electrical device for transmitting speech, consisting of a microphone and receiver mounted on a handset
(as modifier)a telephone receiver
a worldwide system of communications using telephones. The microphone in one telephone converts sound waves into electrical signals that are transmitted along a telephone wire or by radio to one or more distant sets, the receivers of which reconvert the incoming signal into the original sound
(as modifier)a telephone exchange; a telephone call
See telephone box
verb
to call or talk to (a person) by telephone
to transmit (a recorded message, radio or television programme, or other information) by telephone, using special transmitting and receiving equipment