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 ● Jul. 23, 2025
He said he had been able to speak to his parents via a prison payphone and described the conversations as "excruciatingly painful".
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2025
I had to be told how to use the payphone.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
My mother used a payphone to call the store's security office and "confess" to her accidental shoplifting.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2023
Wednesday wrote down the telephone number of the payphone.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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