How to Use hotline in a Sentence

hotline

noun
  • The Coast Guard had reported the whale to the 24-hour stranding hotline.
    Laurelin Kruse, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2022
  • And Jonathan works in a suicide hotline and talks about the rise of these calls from other kids.
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The hotline is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
    Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The Suns aren't the first NBA team to have an internal hotline for complaints.
    Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The state also opened up a hotline on Sunday for those concerned about the breach.
    Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 16 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • The violation hotline is staffed around the clock 365 days a year.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 19 Nov. 2022
  • The American Red Cross has a hotline available around the clock.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024
  • 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
  • More than 1,000 calls have come into the hotline so far, his office says.
    Ames Alexander and, Charlotte Observer, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Special garbage bins, a 24/7 hotline, scare cartridges, and a bear jail.
    WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Have conversations about email and phone scams, which evolve all the time, and share resources like the AARP scam hotline.
    Annaliese Griffin, Fortune, 29 July 2022
  • And give students and parents a way to report it, like a website or hotline.
    Kristen Griffith, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Calling the hotline from a cell phone provides special perks.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The hotline is a first of its kind in California and is offered in more than 200 languages.
    Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 21 May 2024
  • Tips to the hotline can remain anonymous, the commission said.
    Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The hotline was launched in 2019 amid widespread pro-democracy protests.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 8 June 2022
  • The mother said the physician reported the incident to the state's child abuse and neglect hotline.
    Alexandria Brown, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2022
  • One day, a neighbor was reporting a problem bear to the state’s wildlife hotline and mentioned that Miller may want help, too.
    Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Calls to the hotline on Friday were answered by a recording asking that the caller leave a message.
    New York Times, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Those who want to surrender will be able to call the hotline and plan with authorities on where and how to turn themselves in.
    cleveland, 11 Jan. 2023
  • There is a help hotline and psychologists are on-site to assist.
    Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
  • In the District, call the city’s services hotline at 311, and if a dead animal is on a sidewalk or in an alley, crews will pick it up.
    Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The hotline is free, confidential and available 24 hours a day.
    Irina Gonzalez, Good Housekeeping, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The jump in hotline calls is a red flag, one not yet reflected in the number of patients in addiction treatment.
    Mark Pazniokas, courant.com, 23 Jan. 2022
  • The hotline was overseen by Jennifer Loew, then a Metro employee.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
  • In the United States, there is a government hotline to help those affected.
    Monika Pronczuk, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • According to the park’s wildflower hotline, the first phase of desert blossoms was waning.
    Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 May 2024
  • Only she’s continued teasing it ever since, putting up billboards over the past few weeks featuring a hotline phone number that played snippets of the song.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 4 Mar. 2025

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