was telephoning
- past progressive of telephone.
Example Sentences
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Blinken was telephoning world leaders in an effort to decide on a course of action, a State Department spokesman said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2023
President Barack Obama was telephoning lawmakers Monday as he presses for passage of the treaty before Congress adjourns, according to deputy press secretary Bill Burton.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2010
There were mass hallucinations: there was an island with a hotel, and somebody was telephoning but the hotel was full.
From Time Magazine Archive
They heard that he was telephoning long distance to Senator Walsh of Montana, the Democratic oil inquisitor.
From Time Magazine Archive
While Erlcort was telephoning she was talking to him.
From The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse by Howells, William Dean
