Example Sentences

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Using Google Maps, he made a list of nearby shops and began cold calling.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

So it was a combination of people I had known before or connections to them through people I'd worked with in the past, and then also just cold calling people I admired.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2023

A help wanted ad in the paper led to a job at a dance studio, cold calling potential clients.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 6, 2022

She studies the industries she wants to work in — marketing, consulting, retail management — to see who is hiring, and then starts cold calling and emailing.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 19, 2018

In crossing a room, a cramp took her; she fell on the floor, lay all night in the cold, calling in vain for assistance.

From Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies by Beach, Seth Curtis