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Example sentences for "phones"

Lexicographically close words:
phoenixes; phon; phonation; phone; phoned; phonetic; phonetically; phonetics; phoney; phonic
  1. They all adjusted their ear phones and then drew up chairs and inserted the plugs in the spring sockets designed for their reception.

  2. They adjusted the ear phones and listened intently.

  3. The phones dangled into the liquid bath before him as he adjusted them to suit his requirements.

  4. The words the Man had intoned had been placed in his still pregnable mind by the tele-teach phones and record that the last Master had prepared before death had halted his experiments.

  5. I'm going to see what else we can get from near or far," Gus said, detaching the horn and using the head clamp with its two ear 'phones which had been added to the set.

  6. Bill was beside the radio outfit, silently listening with the ear 'phones clamped to the side of his head.

  7. The growl in their phones died away with the muffled footsteps.

  8. A while back, I began picking up your voice in my phones again.

  9. But Jimmy's plane was equipped with radio, and ear phones were built into his flying helmet.

  10. So he plugged in with his head phones and listened for the hourly report of the Airways Weather Bureau.

  11. So I disconnected my head phones from the instrument board, picked up my flashlight, and stepped out.

  12. He flew on, his head phones still plugged in.

  13. The answering machine is gone, but maybe they didn't realize that phones can have memories and can sometimes tell tales.

  14. All the phones had been removed before the ambulance brought her.

  15. In the other corner was a wide mahogany desk covered with phones and papers and two computers.

  16. Metropolitan and suburban phones had the video screens.

  17. To install the screens in pay-phones would, as yet, triple the cost of the calls.

  18. Neither Long Distance calls nor pay-phones nor rural phones had the new videophone accessories.

  19. Harcourt phones you I'm on my way and tells you what to do.

  20. Now if anybody phones me, say I'm not here, unless it's one of my friends.

  21. I'll switch down the inter-office phones and keep the door shut.

  22. Well, by that time the phones and everything else were going wild.

  23. I answered phones around there for quite a while.

  24. Then as we got outside, of course, the phones were ringing.

  25. They had to put in four or five extra phones up there, and it kept lots of us busy answering the phone.

  26. The Secret Service scrambler-phones and secured lines put a tremendous kink in law enforcement's ability to operate freely; to get the word out, cooperate, prevent misunderstandings.

  27. As an investigator, when you seize a pirate board, you have scored a coup as effective as tapping phones or intercepting mail.

  28. Modems connect computers to phones and thus to each other.

  29. In 1989, electronic cops and hacker-trackers began using scrambler-phones and secured lines.

  30. Naturally, computers and phones are primary topics of conversation on almost every board.

  31. There was a roar and the phones gave me a shock as if somebody were boxing my ears.

  32. Soon however it registered dissatisfaction and impatience; this manifested through hissing and buzzing noises in the phones and the "green dancer's" archings in agitated tremolo.

  33. He plugged it into the old circuit and clamped the phones to his ears.

  34. After that there was nothing more; nothing but static in the phones and the "green dancer" fainted away playing dead.

  35. Miss Prescott 'phones over her regrets, sayin' how her nephew had arrived unexpected; so of course she gets the word to bring Dudley Byron along with her.

  36. No account here," the clerk 'phones back prompt, and I could see the Universal Liquid Container Company takin' a final plunge down the coal chute.

  37. I was talking on the phones and then came the policemen and then came the press.

  38. Yes, sir; I was alone until the lights all went out and the phones became dead because the motorcade was coming near us and no one was calling so I got up and thought I could see it from the east window in our office.

  39. Hart was about to call us on our phones when we looked up.

  40. Their ultrophone men, of whom they did not have many, stood around in tense attitudes, their helmet phones strapped around their ears, nervously fingering the tuning controls at their belts.

  41. He put the head-phones over his own ears, and began fumbling with the controls.

  42. He tore the head-phones from his ears and rushed to the door.

  43. He signalled violently for the operator: ordered the ringing of any and all phones about the observatory, and listened in vain for a sound or syllable in reply.

  44. She had not been able to tell what 'phones had answered her hurry call.

  45. These country 'phones are hard to learn, but I often answer the one at Grantly for my old friends.

  46. I believe one of these 'phones that rings everybody's number would send me crazy.

  47. A moment later the ear-phones on deck were silent.

  48. So absorbed had she become that her ear-phones were forgotten.

  49. Perk had no sooner arranged his head-phones after seeing that Jack had his fixed for service, than he commenced business at the old stand.

  50. When he found a chance to talk with Perk, changing the ear phones from the girl to his chum, now resting up after a continuous service of many hours, the latter absolutely agreed with everything Jack advanced.

  51. The two pilots had their head-phones in position, for they would no doubt like to hold communication from time to time.

  52. Then place the variable condenser, the rheostat, the crystal detector and the binding posts for the head phones in front of and in a line with each other.

  53. The tuning coil, variable condenser, fixed condensers, crystal detectors and head-phones are exactly the same as those described in Set No.

  54. Place the two sets of batteries back of the instruments and screw a couple of binding posts a and b to the right hand lower edge of the base for connecting in the head phones all of which is shown at A in Fig.

  55. A fixed condenser of the exact capacitance required for connecting across the head phones is mounted in a base fitted with binding posts, as shown at B, and costs 75 cents.

  56. A pair of head phones of this type is shown in Fig.

  57. Use the same kind of a detector and pair of head phones as for Set No.

  58. Finally connect the + or positive terminal of the A or storage battery with the wire that runs from the head phones to the variable condenser, all of which is shown in the wiring diagram at B in Fig.

  59. Tell Central to connect the two 'phones in this house.

  60. The girl there in charge of the pay-booths states that more men than women use the 'phones in that part of the station.

  61. We better be careful how we use the phones of this house.

  62. If Morphy 'phones him from the prison to-night we have him.

  63. And on saying that, the Colonel reached out a hand and pulled one of the phones to him.

  64. I meant that maybe your phones here are tapped.

  65. Crowninshield, phones at his ears and microphone at his lips, was staring intently into his own plate.

  66. The ear-phones being still affixed to their heads, Jack naturally desired to know what was up, and did his pal wish to give over the stick to him.

  67. Then what did Perk do but start getting his ear-phones adjusted, being wild to hear a human voice, after all that fiendish roaring and howling kicked up by the raging elements.

  68. Jack was saying this at a time when, relieved from the controls he could enter into one of the little confabs that their use of the ear-phones allowed.

  69. Perk, as he temporarily relieved himself of his ear-phones in order to catch anything bordering on a shout from the ground below.

  70. First of all he was desirous of communicating with his comrade and to do this they must have those indispensible head-phones clapped to their ears.


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