payphone
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"And all the way thinking 'No, don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it.' But it was like I could not control myself. I had to get to the payphone."
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2024
I had to be told how to use the payphone.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
A payphone sits disused inside the nuclear exclusion zone of Futaba town in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
My mother used a payphone to call the store's security office and "confess" to her accidental shoplifting.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2023
Shadow checked out the payphone: an out-of-order sign hung on it.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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