How to Use pay phone in a Sentence

pay phone

noun

• Rankin had done the walk himself, from the pay phones to the blast site.
  — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com, 1 Jan. 2020
• There’s an old pay phone that hasn’t worked in a decade.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 17 Nov. 2020
• That’s when there were pay phones and a call cost five cents.
  — Smithsonian, 29 July 2017
• The suitcase, speed boat, and pay phone all point to some kind of crime story.
  — Meagan Fredette, refinery29.com, 24 Mar. 2018
• Reporters, some from as far away as New York, raced for the pay phone in the lobby.
  — oregonlive, 15 Feb. 2023
• The only way to reach a friend was to call on a land line, pay phone, or jump on the bike and head over to her house.
  — Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 16 Feb. 2017
• The call is later determined to have been made from a pay phone near the park.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 22 July 2021
• But the nearest pay phone was several miles away, and the night was rainy and cold.
  — New York Times, 10 Jan. 2022
• The sidewalk patron then quietly made his way to a pay phone and called the cops.
  — oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2022
• Every 3 or 4 miles, farms had a social place to gather and talk, make calls on the pay phone or just have lunch.
  — WSJ, 5 Dec. 2017
• For all those reasons, the American teen summer job was going the way of the pay phone.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• One minute after the pack was first called in by the GBI agent, at a bank of pay phones by a hotel outside the park, a man dialed 911.
  — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com, 1 Jan. 2020
• Even now that most of us have phones in our pockets, pay phones aren't going anywhere.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 27 Nov. 2015
• Ten years later, a man called a real estate agency from a pay phone and asked to see a home.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 2 Feb. 2023
• According to Greenberg, my dad got up to use the pay phone outside.
  — Kristen McGuiness, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2022
• Called a Link, this tower had replaced a curbside pay phone.
  — David Dobbs, Slate Magazine, 25 Sep. 2017
• Police said Green, a mother of four, had left her home to use a pay phone and never returned.
  — Frank Fernandez, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2019
• Sometime later, Jaeger and Wellmaker were near a pay phone when the sedan pulled up.
  — Jacques Billeaud, azcentral, 7 May 2018
• Hoffa called his wife, Josephine, from a pay phone to say that he'd been stood up at a lunch meeting with two mobsters.
  — Emma Dale, Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2020
• Myers went to a pay phone 14 minutes later on Montgomery Road and made a call.
  — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• While the final pay phone will no longer be in service, it won't be forgotten.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 23 May 2022
• By 8:08, when the first witness reached a pay phone, and before any officers appeared, the mob was gone.
  — Andrew Meier, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2022
• Deals were often made on the restaurant’s pay phone, which was the first one installed in Hollywood.
  — Lesley Solmonson, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2017
• Jo, a 21-year-old schoolteacher, rushed down to the phone company to use a pay phone to call for details about her husband.
  — Lindsey Bever, ajc, 10 July 2018
• There was a request for a subway car, a pay phone, a model of Willie’s Burgers in Williamsburg.
  — Liza Weisstuch, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• The first pay phone was installed in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1900.
  — Fox News, 10 Mar. 2023
• Free 911 calls can also be made at pay phones at all transit stations.
  — oregonlive.com, 31 July 2019
• These sleek pay phone booths fit his description, rising from the city sidewalks alongside the glass and steel skyscrapers of the 1950s.
  — New York Times, 5 June 2022
• In the old days—the days of the sidewalk shoeshine, the days of the pay phone—a New Yorker could buy an evening edition of the Times or the Post from a metal news box and read it on the subway home.
  — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• There is still an operating pay phone located in the hallway at the IRS building.
  — Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024