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Example sentences for "telephoning"

Lexicographically close words:
telepathy; telephone; telephoned; telephones; telephonic; telephonist; telephonists; telephony; telephoto; teleport
  1. And HE told her I bored him--telephoning him I wanted to see him.

  2. Edith was reduced to telephoning Lamhorn from shops whenever she could juggle her mother into a momentary distraction over a counter.

  3. And then to Edith: "Did you tell my husband I had been telephoning to Lamhorn?

  4. She said, 'You tell your wife to stop telephoning Robert Lamhorn to come and see her, because he isn't going to do it!

  5. Did you tell her I'd been telephoning you I wanted you to come?

  6. Several times during the day she was on the point of telephoning Brent not to try to persuade Howard to rent the house, and once she even got so far as to take down the receiver.

  7. Dear child, I promised you shouldn't be disturbed, whatever happened, but Tony has been telephoning for the sixth time to-day.

  8. Severance, as it happened, had been on the point of telephoning Mrs. Sorel, not daring to attempt direct communication with Marise.

  9. Barnhardt lost no time in telephoning the Wickiup that Sinclair was in town, but within an hour, while the two women were still under the surgeon's protection, a knock at the cottage door gave them a second fright.

  10. Don't you know that I allow no one in here when I am telephoning on the private wire?

  11. Hildebloom was telephoning because the engagement was overdue and he could wait no longer.

  12. For a moment, she thought of telephoning Mrs. Carey and offering some hastily conceived excuse.

  13. I remember specifically once going into the desk and asking for him and then telephoning him to come down.

  14. Marina said to me, "They don't know that I'm telephoning you.

  15. He saw that this new idea of telephoning must be made familiar to the public mind.

  16. It was his daily duty to go aloft, at the end of a steel tether, and bob about for seven hours at a stretch, studying the effects of the shell fire and telephoning down directions for the proper aiming of the guns.

  17. I'm telephoning from a doctor's house near Nyack," said Dean.

  18. She felt almost certain that he had known it from the very first, since that afternoon when he had overheard her telephoning about the "fifth book.

  19. Every day I can hear some one telephoning to him.

  20. I've taken the liberty of telephoning to Dr.

  21. One advantage of telephoning at this hour is that one is tolerably free from interruption.

  22. That fellow was telephoning from some place near a sawmill!

  23. As I have said, the telephoning of the instructions about the papers took some time.

  24. The detective couldn't say: 'I take you into custody for telephoning an address to Mrs. Damon.

  25. For the next half-hour he was engaged with his correspondence, and in telephoning instructions to his office.

  26. Perhaps the Prime Minister will suggest telephoning to town for a man to come down to force the safe should the key not be found.

  27. They came to his club and talked with him until long past midnight, themselves telephoning inquiries and instructions to friends and lieutenants, and summoning other leaders to join them.

  28. Irwin had a manner of telephoning that was more hurried than the Judge's, and Miss Weston treated him with greater deliberation.

  29. During the week he thought frequently of telephoning up to Darrow and asking if they still had the same raftsman on the pay-roll, but his pride forbade this.

  30. Telephoning is one of the prices you have to pay to live in a metropolis, Jim.

  31. Having now completed the task of telephoning to Murray Hill several thousand and something, I'm ready to join you at luncheon.

  32. Rufe really did have some telephoning to the city to get through with; it is his regular morning duty; and father had to drive across part of our place to give directions about some fences which had been washed away last night.

  33. May I suggest," Brent said, "that you abandon the idea of telephoning the sheriff?

  34. He decided that he was, for who had ever heard of "telephoning for a car"?

  35. Try telephoning and you'll find they won't die of shock.

  36. We thought from your telephoning that it must be important.

  37. And had not she admitted that relation by telephoning to him during her anxiety?

  38. They were listening to the clerk who had compiled the report, who was telephoning now, and Constance, waiting, listened too to learn what he might be hearing.

  39. I know it, for he never stays away like this without telephoning or sending a message home.

  40. And when the three little birds saw that he didn't know who was talking to him, they thought they'd have some fun and make believe some one was telephoning to the little rabbit.

  41. I've been telephoning him, and he wants a boy who is wide-awake and not stupid.

  42. Had Eleanor, then, been telephoning to Kane the very night of the murder?

  43. Then her thoughts reverted to the episode of Mrs. Black's telephoning so late that night, after the death of her uncle.

  44. I don't for a minute imagine Eleanor is implicated in Uncle Rowly's death, but what was she telephoning for?

  45. This unusual coincidence convinced me that the man who was telephoning me either was on the inside of affairs at Republican headquarters, or had an uncanny way of knowing just what the managers were doing.


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