How to Use landline in a Sentence

landline

noun

• Their phones die too, even the landline; the fridge and stove, the lights.
  — Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• From the art on the walls, to the desk in the window, to the landline phone, no detail was left untouched.
  — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Nov. 2021
• The system can send alerts to cell phones and call landlines.
  — Molly Walsh | [e-mail], cleveland, 1 Sep. 2023
• The only way to reach Todd Snider is to call his landline.
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2023
• The basic unit connects to a landline and has a range of 1,300 feet.
  — Dallas News, 22 Nov. 2022
• Inside the kitchen, the landline phone was missing, and the shelves were nearly bare.
  — Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 9 May 2023
• The poll was taken by landline and cell phone last week.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2022
• The phone would have the same phone number as any other landline phones in your home.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 25 Apr. 2023
• If a landline isn't available, a cell phone can be used.
  — Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 5 June 2023
• As with Echo devices, calls to landline and cell numbers in the US are free.
  — David Nield, Popular Science, 22 June 2020
• The poll ran from July 5-11 using landline, cell-phone and text-to-web.
  — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 14 July 2022
• This town has one landline telephone in the entire town.
  — Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 25 Jan. 2022
• The duo took first place in the landline rescue race, third place in the surfboat race and fourth place in the board rescue race.
  — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Aug. 2021
• Falling in line with both of the past episodes, Swift spoke the title into a red landline phone.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2022
• Alerts can be sent out through a cell phone or landline calls, text messages and emails.
  — Rocky Baier, azcentral, 18 July 2019
• Desks are covered in a thin layer of dust, a landline phone lays upside on the ground.
  — Cnn Staff, CNN, 4 Aug. 2022
• No one had cell phones in those days, so our landline was our lifeline.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2021
• The cell phone/landline poll was conducted Sept. 29 through Oct. 2.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2022
• That pesky landline ringing off the hook — who even has those anymore?
  — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2022
• That may have worked when most people called from landlines.
  — Natalie Eilbert, Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2024
• For calls of that sort, a landline is required, or so my psyche thinks.
  — Max, Longreads, 12 May 2020
• Ally had to find a landline to call her children or send a fax instead of emails and texts.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2024
• Cell service was spotty, so a kind young couple took us to their home to use the landline.
  — Washington Post, 21 July 2021
• But the landline phones still worked, and people stranded in their homes had little else to do but talk to us.
  — cleveland, 6 Mar. 2021
• In the past, phones had only one sound: the shrill, continuous ring of a landline.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 23 June 2024
• The same was true in the landline age, when there was a dedicated circuit for each phone call.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
• In the era of landlines, a PR/TT meant getting a record of all the incoming and outgoing calls from a phone.
  — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
• Many say their calls are unable to connect to landlines.
  — Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2019
• In a memorably recursive moment, the character of Casey Becker (played by Drew Barrymore) is quizzed on horror movie trivia by the killer via landline.
  — Sydney Bishop, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
• For example, older people tend to answer landlines, while men and middle-aged people are more responsive to mobile text-to-web surveys.
  — Camille Mumford, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024