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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Carry a windshield scraper, jumper cables, a small shovel, flashlight, cell phone, blanket and additional warm clothing, drinking water, and high-calorie non-perishable food.
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Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Manufactured objects — plastic bottles, ballpoint pens, concrete buildings, teabags, wind turbines, cell phones, T-shirts, aluminum cans — outweigh the living world and will form distinctive, if sometimes hard to interpret, clues to our existence.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025
However, the song itself is soaked in early 2000s nostalgia, with the title itself alluding to the ever-present phones that littered Y2K culture as cell phones began to take over.
—Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 26 Mar. 2025
According to the official, their cell phones should be confiscated and analyzed to determine if additional sensitive information has been put at risk and/or leaked.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
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Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Manufactured objects — plastic bottles, ballpoint pens, concrete buildings, teabags, wind turbines, cell phones, T-shirts, aluminum cans — outweigh the living world and will form distinctive, if sometimes hard to interpret, clues to our existence.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025
However, the song itself is soaked in early 2000s nostalgia, with the title itself alluding to the ever-present phones that littered Y2K culture as cell phones began to take over.
—Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 26 Mar. 2025
According to the official, their cell phones should be confiscated and analyzed to determine if additional sensitive information has been put at risk and/or leaked.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for cell phone
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“Cell phone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cell%20phone. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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