Example Sentences

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“We could in future see a situation where somebody is phoning 999 because their house is on fire and we could be turning around and saying ‘sorry, there is a delay',” he said.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2024

He and the other team members have been bringing those stars into alignment, and he is phoning to brief me.

From Scientific American • Sep. 15, 2021

It’s 2 p.m. in the intensive care ward of Marseille’s La Timone hospital, and Dr. Julien Carvelli is phoning families hit by the second wave of the coronavirus with news about their children, husbands, wives.

From Washington Times • Nov. 17, 2020

The effect is not so much that the singer is phoning it in, but that he’s resigned himself to the impossibility of reproducing the careful, surreal dynamic calibrations of the recordings.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2015

I wonder what she is phoning to Mrs. Blakely for?

From Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge by Ginther, Pemberton