cell phone
noun
variants
or less commonly cellphone
plural cell phones also cellphones
: a portable usually cordless telephone for use in a cellular system
Examples of cell phone in a Sentence
Call me on my cell phone.
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There was one bar of cell phone service that fleeing residents and approaching firefighters were competing for.
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Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2025
Most students attend schools lacking any comprehensive cell phone policy.
—Raj Goyle, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2025
In Nashville, Mikayla had just gotten out of practice and was watching the game on her cell phone before heading over to Memorial Gymnasium to see Vanderbilt’s men’s team take on Tennessee later that afternoon.
—Grace Raynor, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
Beauchamps’ husband had just dropped off their daughter, Alexandra Ramos, at her school bus stop in Naples when her cell phone rang around 6:30 a.m.
—Carlos Suarez, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025
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Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2025
Most students attend schools lacking any comprehensive cell phone policy.
—Raj Goyle, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2025
In Nashville, Mikayla had just gotten out of practice and was watching the game on her cell phone before heading over to Memorial Gymnasium to see Vanderbilt’s men’s team take on Tennessee later that afternoon.
—Grace Raynor, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
Beauchamps’ husband had just dropped off their daughter, Alexandra Ramos, at her school bus stop in Naples when her cell phone rang around 6:30 a.m.
—Carlos Suarez, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025
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“Cell phone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cell%20phone. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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