How to Use hotline in a Sentence

hotline

noun
  • The hotline is sponsored by FreeConferenceCall.com, which launched it back in 2009 as a way to promote its services.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Calls from fire victims to a mental health hotline shot up this spring.
    Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Please note that the hotline cannot give you your refund status for any year other than the 2022 tax year.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Calling the hotline from a cell phone provides special perks.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 19 Nov. 2023
  • In the United States, there is a government hotline to help those affected.
    Monika Pronczuk, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • That hotline currently only has about a minute wait time, Etheridge said Friday.
    Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
  • The hotline is open during regular business hours and from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. (Eastern time) on Election Day.
    Nick Hollkamp, The Courier-Journal, 17 May 2023
  • Fund Texas Choice — which helps arrange and cover flights, hotel stays, food and child care — has also reopened its hotline.
    Allie Morris, Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Much of those fears dissipated if their peers encouraged them to call crisis hotlines, the study said.
    Journal Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2024
  • As of last June, the hotline received an average of 10 calls per month that were related to citations.
    Claire Rush, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Alarm Phone, a network of activists who run a hotline for migrant boats in distress, told AP that people on the ship were desperate for help.
    Isabelle Butera, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
  • Dispatchers use their skills and training to discern when to transfer calls to the crisis hotline, Butcher said.
    Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
  • The best resource for tracking the springtime show is the Theodore Payne Wildflower hotline, which started up last week and will be updated through June.
    Michael Charboneau, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Biden said the three countries would establish a hotline to discuss responses to threats.
    Aamer Madhani and Darlene Superville, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Kristin Vaughn, a survivor and advocate in Virginia, has called the hotline several times for victims.
    Brittany Shammas The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 10 July 2023
  • For now, most children released to sponsors have little support aside from an H.H.S. hotline.
    Hannah Dreier, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • This includes during the 988 rollout, Johnson said: peers have assessed, triaged, and responded to crisis calls since the hotline's launch.
    Eli Cahan, ABC News, 17 July 2023
  • And forget about a U.S. hotline call to Xi or one of his top generals to calm things down — not happening, at least not under this role-playing scenario.
    Ellen Knickmeyer, Chicago Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Workman called 671-SAFE, the city hotline for reports of child abuse, and soon law enforcement officers arrived.
    Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
  • No, China’s leaders have a history of shunning U.S. hotline calls, and that’s a problem, the exercise leaders tell them.
    Ellen Knickmeyer, Chicago Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023
  • There’s also concern that the hotline is itself difficult to access.
    Erin Vivid Riley, The New Republic, 29 July 2023
  • Yet the anonymous caller, whom L.B. believes to be a former acquaintance with a grudge, has continued to dial in to New York’s state child welfare hotline.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Distressed men called a city-run men's hotline, promoted online, for support.
    Christina Noriega, NPR, 23 Feb. 2024
  • When caucus chairs attempted to call the backup hotline number to report results, the line was overloaded.
    Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Thompson said the chatbot was not intended as a replacement for its advice hotline.
    Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • One of the 12 programs Women and Children First offers is a 24-hour statewide domestic violence hotline.
    Remington Miller, Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Anyhow, the woman on the other end of the hotline was perfectly nice, but the conversation felt lonesomely scripted.
    Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
  • There will also be a telephone hotline to answer tenant questions.
    Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023
  • Instead of arresting the person, the officer hands out a citation with a $100 fine along with a hotline number to call for a social services screening.
    Story Hinckley, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Some of the volunteers say the hotline has been a personal journey in engaging in the various debates around a complex conflict.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2023

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