payphone
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 • Apr. 29, 2025
"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
My mother used a payphone to call the store's security office and "confess" to her accidental shoplifting.
From Salon • Jan. 21, 2023
A scarred payphone is mounted above a rack with a few faded tourist brochures for Canobie Lake Park, Robert Frost Farm, and the New Hampshire Snowmobile Museum.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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