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Example sentences for "phoned"

Lexicographically close words:
phoebes; phoenixes; phon; phonation; phone; phones; phonetic; phonetically; phonetics; phoney
  1. Ally didn't want to confess that she felt indirectly responsible for what had just occurred If she hadn't phoned .

  2. Then he phoned his employer and told him where he could find the milk float leaving it up to the employer to mollify all the irate customers.

  3. I 'phoned Miss Fraenkel this morning," she said, "and asked her to come up after dinner this evening.

  4. Aunt 'phoned for her to join her at the hospital!

  5. He 'phoned me early in the evening saying that he had an unavoidable business appointment to keep.

  6. I dropped in to tell you that William has just 'phoned up to say he accepts our invitation to dinner this evening, but he is most anxious to know who else is coming.

  7. But to make quite sure he 'phoned to your chemist, who, it appears, put your name on the bottle instead of The Kid's.

  8. Then she went in to her awakening household, glad that the little boy had 'phoned his "Pa" and by some means had got her too.

  9. Some hours later when the 'phone rang, Mary went to explain that the doctor had 'phoned her he would be out about twenty minutes.

  10. You're the very identical woman that told me when I 'phoned awhile ago that you'd send him right down.

  11. I have 'phoned twice and failed to find him.

  12. An old friend I had not seen for years came in and of course it went out of my mind for a few minutes, though I 'phoned twice before she came.

  13. I 'phoned Mr. Felton and begged him to go down there and take someone with him.

  14. She was at a house by the Methodist church, she said, when she 'phoned to see if you was at the office.

  15. He said if you 'phoned to tell you you would have to come there as they have no 'phone.

  16. I was just saying," said Mary, "that the doctor 'phoned me a few minutes ago he would be out for half an hour.

  17. I 'phoned about three minutes ago and failed to get him.

  18. Nettie couldn't have 'phoned me at a more opportune minute to get the right answer.

  19. He just 'phoned me that he--" an unmistakable sound arose from the kitchen stove.

  20. The doctor 'phoned me about ten minutes ago that he would be out for half an hour and asked me to answer the 'phone in his absence," Mary explained, pleasantly.

  21. I told a lady at the 'phone to wait a minute, she's 'phoned twice.

  22. He phoned the gendarmes in the city of Ypres and in less than half-an-hour they came.

  23. Our artillery observer at Zillebeke now phoned that the Huns were massing in Sanctuary Woods--"Fire must come from somewhere.

  24. Our telephonist 'phoned headquarters for the weightier women to get busy, telling them of our plight, and inside six minutes the ladies of larger girth, the 9.

  25. We watched intently for some time, keeping our eyes glued on the movement of the hands in conjunction with the fire, and then the matter was phoned to headquarters.

  26. We could have phoned the first gate and asked if the truck and sedan had passed through.

  27. Oh, the Assistant Secretary of the Interior phoned personally.

  28. Dad phoned and gave him the information from the Motor Vehicle Bureau.

  29. My landlady told me you phoned about something I left in Brentwood.

  30. He came in right after you 'phoned and has been here ever since.

  31. Must be a good half hour since his office phoned he was leavin'.

  32. Ed had phoned earlier and said he'd be a little late.

  33. Fortunately we phoned this Mrs. Mimms and she was available.

  34. So she went down and phoned over to Whiskers about the matter.

  35. Holland phoned it out and he said it was only too true.

  36. Next day she and Rilla worked all the forenoon, making delicacies for the wedding-feast, and as soon as Miranda phoned up that her father was safely off everything was packed in a big hamper and taken down to the Pryor house.

  37. After two days of worry Rilla phoned to the president of the Patriotic Society that she would recite.

  38. He had phoned Jean so there would be no hitch, and she was waiting for him in the hospital garden, her coat over her arm, bareheaded.

  39. Often Sister Blanche wrote or wired or phoned the patient's connections, knowing what a visit from a loved one or friend could mean.

  40. So the bank president had phoned the Burchards and found out what the AE had done and was doing, and he threatened to sue on behalf of the Burchards.

  41. Gordon had phoned that he had been delayed, but would arrive by Navy plane around noontime.

  42. He phoned Scotty and found that his pal was hearing equally wild rumors.

  43. Carson just phoned down and ordered us out on an assignment.

  44. The Transcontinental people have sent out a general alarm and Hunter just phoned and asked us to help in the search.

  45. Tim phoned me yesterday and I've got a ship all ready and waiting on the line for you chaps.

  46. After breakfast with Lewis the next morning, Tim phoned the News office, and putting a bug in the managing editor's ear that he had stumbled onto a real clue, got permission to free lance for the rest of the day.

  47. Herr's, but the following day she mentioned that you had written and 'phoned to her, with the result that she would put up at your house for one night at least.

  48. I 'phoned to him from my room, where my mother was lying in bed, and she heard what I said.

  49. Though I thought about it continually, this point was still a puzzle when McKelvie phoned me, early the second day after our visit to Riverside Drive, and asked me to meet him there at ten o'clock, but to tell no one where I was going.

  50. From there I phoned Jenkins to look after Mr. Trenton, and then followed McKelvie into a low-ceilinged old room lighted by a mellow glow which made the heavy mahogany furniture seem even more ancient than it really was.

  51. By the way I phoned him to meet us at the Darwin house.

  52. I phoned his office and asked him whether my ring was ready for me.

  53. I determined to ask him what other information he had upon this point when I called for him at five o'clock, but at four-thirty, as I was making ready to leave, he phoned me to postpone our visit.

  54. I phoned down some twenty minutes ago asking you to hold the boy who delivered a letter to Mrs. Ogden Wilmerding about half past six this evening.

  55. He was puzzled to learn, on reaching the club, that Lawrence had phoned during his absence and left an urgent message that he was not to leave the building until he heard again from the Harvard man.

  56. It was phoned in from the Merton House at six-five.

  57. When news of the professor's death came I phoned at once to the doctor mentioned in the paper and asked if there were any possibility of foul play.

  58. When he had phoned her of his safety after the fight with Varrhus he could hear a flood of thankfulness in her voice, but when he saw her the next day she was almost distant.

  59. I reasoned as how the folks who 'phoned had to go out and left the package, so I took it along.

  60. Did the person who 'phoned give you a name?

  61. Captain Stewart had 'phoned to his party "Heavy marching orders, three P.

  62. Llewellyn 'phoned to Peggy that he would return at the end of the week and if quite agreeable would like to pass a few days at Severndale with her, as his own housekeeper had not yet returned from her holiday.

  63. After I 'phoned you I went to the park, was caught in the rain, and attacked by two ruffians, who knocked me down, and left me to what they supposed would be certain destruction.

  64. In the first place, tell me, Dorothy, what happened just after I 'phoned you last evening, and you made an appointment to meet me in the park.

  65. And since Mr. Turner has phoned me and complained about your being on his property, I don't care to have any further trouble with our new neighbor.

  66. My wife thought something was up," says the man who owns the hill, "so she phoned me and I came home.


  67. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phoned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.