telephone
noun
an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, especially by an electric device.
are telephoning
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present progressiveof telephone.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"It isn't a question of respectability,—I want to know why they are telephoning you,—not casually,—but apparently on some important matter."
From Patty and Azalea by Carolyn Wells
People are telephoning and messengers are on the way.
From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various
All the people of the world are telephoning to one another; for oral speech leaping from the vocal organs of one human being to the ear of another is always telephonic.
From Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World by John Clark Ridpath
And while you are telephoning I'll change my dress.
From Alexander's Bridge by Willa Sibert Cather
