cordless telephone
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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At first, she could chat with her father through a glass door, using a cordless telephone.
From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2020
His first Big Idea came in the mid-’90s, when he tried to buy a cordless telephone.
From Forbes • Mar. 31, 2014
Congress reached the same conclusion in 1986, specifically refusing to impose a warrant requirement on "the radio portion of a cordless telephone communication."
From Time Magazine Archive
It turned out that the transmissions that the woman had heard on her AM radio were coming from a nearby home whose occupant, Leo DeLaurier, owned a cordless telephone.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is how balling I was: I bought a cordless telephone.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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