Synonym: call, call up, earphone, earpiece, headphone, ring, sound, speech sound, telephone, telephone set. Similar words: telephone, honor, photo, catch on, honestly, touch on, switch on, metaphor. Meaning: [fəʊn] n. 1. electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds 2. (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language 3. electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear. v. get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone.
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91. Why does the phone always ring when I'm in the shower?
92. Could you jot your address and phone number in my address book?
93. I often mistake her for her mother on the phone.
94. He had a kind of feeling that she would phone him.
95. She was on the phone for an hour telling me her troubles.
96. I'd just got in the bath when the phone rang.
97. I'm sorry. I know I was bitchy on the phone.
98. Alan dropped another quarter into the slot on the pay phone.
99. She saw the man from the rear-vision mirror who followed her was standing behind a phone booth.
100. You'll just have to be patient and wait till I'm off the phone.
101. She spends hours on the phone chatting to her friends.
102. That son of mine is on the phone all day!
103. If you have no other business, you may hang up the phone.
104. My day began in the normal way, and then I received a very strange phone call.
105. Could you keep the kids quiet while I'm on the phone?
106. Listeners have been invited to phone in to pick the winner. Sentencedict.com
107. As her parting shot she told me never to phone her again.
108. We speak on the/by phone about twice a week.
109. We managed to raise him on his mobile phone.
110. She put the phone down on me .
111. Phone home, otherwise your parents will start to worry.
112. There goes the phone. I'll answer it.
113. He banged the phone down before I could explain.
114. I often doodle when I'm on the phone.
115. Please phone back as quickly/soon as possible.
116. Phone calls elicited no further information.
117. They recently launched a new phone banking service.
118. By noon, we had had ten phone calls.
119. Could I use your phone, please?
120. Swipe your card through the phone, then dial.
More similar words: telephone, honor, photo, catch on, honestly, touch on, switch on, metaphor, photograph, photography, photographer.