payphone
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The query is repeated, monotone into a payphone, by actor Kristen Stewart, who appears on the song and in the David Lynch-ian fever dream of a video for “Who Laughs Last.”
From Los Angeles Times
Brinkley, who grew up in Canoga Park and Malibu, was discovered in 1973 by photographer Errol Sawyer at 19 while waiting for a payphone on a Paris street corner.
From Los Angeles Times
He said he had been able to speak to his parents via a prison payphone and described the conversations as "excruciatingly painful".
From BBC
He walked to a payphone, dialed an aide, and soon a few television and newspaper reporters showed up.
From Los Angeles Times
Around 11 p.m. on the night of the infamous Tyson fight, Landrum spotted Alarcon on a payphone outside a Hawthorne tire store, according to the suit.
From Los Angeles Times
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