I missed Tom by 'phone and started to intercept him on his way here, when I ran across the crowd talking with Mart Walters.
Our 'phone was all right, and I got the doctor at once.
The phone at the other end rang five times and then an answering machine came on.
Winston Bartlett was on the phone to Van de Vliet the moment he stepped into his limo to head downtown.
He took out a prepaid phone card and punched in the access number and then the area code for Bethesda, Maryland, followed by Dale's private, at-home number.
She was still thinking about that when the phone rang again.
She'd put on blue sweats, got her Walkman prepped with a Beethoven quintet, and was just finishing cinching her running shoes when the phone jangled.
He was clicking off the phone when he heard a wail of despair from the bedroom upstairs and the sound of a champagne flute being thrown against a wall.
The main thing would be somephone numbers and addresses.
He was called up on the 'phone by the head of the School Board, who informed him that at a late meeting of the said committee it had been resolved to give all the members of the Oakvale Troop of Boy Scouts the entire day off on Friday.
But McNish kept his face gravely non-committal, wondering how it was that this important bit of news had not reached him.
Baseball, football, cricket, would give occupation and interest to all classes of Mill workers.
Meantime, find some way of kicking him into his job.
At the outbreak of the war her antipathy to young Stillwell as a slacker had been violent.
The mill is strewn with the wreckage of unfulfilled orders.
You must do it just once more," said Frances, coming to meet the players.
There was no occasion for heat or bluster or profanity.
But deep in his heart he nourished a passion for vengeance that became an obsession, a madness with him.
The soul of the youth was eager, adventurous, still believing, yet with a certain questioning and a touch of weariness, a result of the aftermath of peace following three years of war.
A hurry call--phone message for Annette--horrible accident.
I have not even seen you for a whole week," she complained, getting in beside him, "and your phone is always busy in the evening.
I had the White House on the 'phone this afternoon.
The President of the United States tried to get you on the 'phone just now.
We were all at breakfast there at the Gilbert house when I got the phone that those boobs down in Los Angeles had let Skeels slip through their fingers.
You keep busy at that phone and help land him," I growled.
Did you phone ahead to see how things was out to the house?
Rick hung up and stared at the phone thoughtfully, trying to fit this new information into the scheme of things.
It was two minutes before nine when the phone rang.
And if we can do anything else, you know the phone number.
We had a phone call telling us to keep away from the creek and the house, or Orvil would be fed to the crabs.
Rick, you phone Orvil Harris and make arrangements.
We'll phone you as soon as we have an identification.
We were sitting down enjoying coffee and trying to keep awake when the phone rang.
I went to the airport and used a public phone booth by the side of the road to call Patuxent Naval Air Station.
Rick jumped to his feet and beat Scotty to the phone only because he was four steps nearer.
Buck asked me how the wireless 'phone was coming along, and when I told him that we had our aerial up and expected to be receiving stuff within a few days, he seemed surprised.
He laid the board on the bench, and arranged the tuning coil, the crystal detector, the condenser, and the terminals for the head phone plugs in what he thought should be their proper positions, and then called for advice on this layout.
I told you to 'phone her yesterday morning from the office.
After one or two more uneasy laps about the room, Jimmy went to his 'phone and called his house number.
It is doubtful whether Zoie's continued laughter might not have provoked Jimmy to desperate measures, had not the 'phone at that moment directed their thoughts toward worse possibilities.
Apparently he was still occupied with his shaving, but just as Jimmy was about to ask for particulars, the 'phone rang.
Jimmy will have to arrange that with the Superintendent of the Home," answered Aggie with decision, and she turned toward the 'phone to instruct Jimmy accordingly.
Let me talk to Jimmy," she said, and the next moment she was chattering so rapidly and incoherently over the 'phone that Aggie despaired of hearing one word that she said, and retired to the next room to think out a new plan of action.
Alfred was about to seat himself beside his friend, when the 'phone rang violently.
We can't undertake to furnish you with amusement, and we are too busy to spend the day gossiping with you over the phone just to help you pass the time.
The lookout on Claremont, he'll draw a bead on it too, and phone in his number--see?
I'd forgotten what a phone looks like, and so when I heard .
So he cut Quincy out of his calculations and decided that he wouldphone down for a camp outfit and grub, and visit one or two of the places that he had been looking at for so long.
If the man who told me doesn't blurt it to every one he sees--what in the world possessed you, Marion, to phone down to the Forest Service that you were up there and going to stay?
We'll go up there, and I'll phone down to the office to have the firemen stop and see if she's all right.
Well, who'd ever have thought that I might phone a message to Kate!
You can phone down for anything you need that you haven't got with you, you know.
You know, Jewel, your grandfather doesn't like to be disturbed in his business and called to the 'phone unless it is something very important.
Yes, indeed, and I guess I'll kiss the 'phone now, grandpa.
I have been spending all the afternoon getting on to the phone to Paris to untangle the muddle.
By this time the manager was on the phone to the police.
I tried to get you on the 'phone this morning, but your line was busy, and I didn't have a chance to try again.
If you should change your mind within the next half hour, you can reach me by 'phone at the Union League.
March picked up the phone from the orderly and spoke to the ship.
With a smile he picked up thephone and announced to everybody, “It’s all over, folks.
Larry grabbed the phone from the interphone orderly and spoke into it.
If I do not phone you by one o'clock, call Headquarters and tell them to rush some men to Hi Ling's curio shop.
As if in answer to my thought, the phone in the hall rang sharply and Jenkins appeared to announce that Headquarters would like to speak with me.
As Orton moved to the hall phone I inserted the key in the lock of the study door and opened it with some trepidation, remembering what lay within.
Stay out in the hall beside the phone and don't go to sleep.
You are not strong enough yet to take a journey in the Subway and I have no desire to use the phone to call a taxi.
We were still discussing the matter when McKelvie called me on the phone to say that he had word from Chicago and would like me to hear what Dick's friend had to say.
He stepped to the table and picked up the phone and while he summoned the doctor I looked at him more attentively.
Spent half the night trying to find a phone not out of commission but failed.
What I had heard over the 'phone had awakened me thoroughly.
The 'phone seems to be out of order and--Great Scott, girl!
By the way, if he doesn't come pretty soon I'll phone her pa to send the carriage for her.
But when you came to New York six months afterwards, and did not so much as 'phone or send me a card of greeting--Selma called in her silly tears.
Almost, she had crossed the bay to visit the Reifferscheids; would have done so, indeed, had she been able to 'phone her coming.
After awhile she went to the 'phone and called the office.
Silence for a few seconds then a voice, "No, there is no 'phone at Thomas Calhoun's.
An hour or two later he was starting out to get into the buggy, with splints and other needful things when the 'phone called him back.
This is the first time I have been at the 'phone this morning.
I know there are people who fancy the doctor's wife enjoying to the utmost her 'sweet privilege' of answering the 'phone in her husband's absence.
When she was dozing off the bell rang so sharply she was on her feet and at the 'phone almost before she knew it.
When he had to leave the office he could just 'phone Mary and she could keep an ear on the 'phone till he got back.
Some hours later when the 'phone rang, Mary went to explain that the doctor had 'phoned her he would be out about twenty minutes.
By and by the 'phone was ringing and she was springing up and hastening to answer it.
Scarcely had she done so when the 'phone rang--two rings.
I find there is no 'phone at Mr. Calhoun's so I have called you hoping you might be able to help me out.
By the way, Mr. Nelson, will you just 'phone the doctor at the office, please?
Please 'phone your complaints to the doctor," said Mary, calmly replacing the receiver and shutting off the flood.
When at last he was dressed and his hand was on the door-knob the 'phone called him back.
Silence fell, and Costigan cut in Clio's phone and came over to the seat upon which she was reclining, white and stricken--worn out by the horrible and terrifying ordeals of the last few hours.
First phone you come to, get Spearmint--General Weatherby.
I am instructed to attach my new phone set to one of the universal plates in your conning room, and to see what I can find.
The next day he sent the phone message to Crowder and that night told him the story over dinner at Philip's Rôtisserie.
At eight o'clock Mayer's voice on the phone brought back a slight, faint echo of the thrill.
I'll not come to see you, but I'll phone over in the evening and find out how you're getting on.
And then I knew I couldn't and I got down to thephone some way and told them.
There's no such desperate hurry; I can phone down.
You can't run any such a sandy as this on me,' and I hung up the 'phone on him without giving him the satisfaction of talking it out any further.
Peter noticed that when the old man took a sip of water his hand trembled so that he could hardly keep the water from spilling; and presently, when the phone rang again, his voice became shrill and imperious.
So she only urged me to have another cream-cake, which I took and then I made for the phone and started calling up some ladies to form the committee out of.
I made her swear not to phone Jim nor let him in nor Roscoe, the publicity man, if they was to come--not on no account.
And after they got through the phone rang and there was Goldringer's voice.
And I didn't know his 'phone or where he was or anything.
Tyler, phone again and ask Headquarters if the coroner found anything strange about the head of the men I chased down Fifth Avenue.
I tell you I didn't phone you to meet me in Washington Square!
Can you find out exactly the section and the address of each phone on every line?
Mr. Burke told of the 'phone message, and of having seen Freda board the train for the Junction.
We haven't found out yet who the strange woman was who tried to get information out of Freda, and who sent her the 'phone message.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
