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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151. Phone him up and tell him to come and have dinner with you one night.
152. I borrowed my wife's mobile phone last week and a text arrived from another man.
153. Whoever wants to speak to me on the phone, tell them I'm busy.
154. When he's out on the road, office calls are forwarded to the cellular phone in his truck.
155. I hung up the phone when he started shouting at me.
156. He can be contacted by phone on the telephone number given below.
157. He'll soon phone you up and tell you all about it.
158. I rushed up the stairs/to the office/to find a phone.
159. I flipped through my address book but couldn't find her phone number.
160. She hung up the phone and rejoined them at the table.
161. I've been trying to phone him all day?he must have left his telephone off the hook.
162. I won't go into detail over the phone(sentencedict.com), but I've been having a few health problems recently.
163. Keep the list of numbers near the phone for easy reference.
164. People can phone in the knowledge that any information they give will be treated confidentially.
165. She put down the phone, sighed, and shook her head sadly.
166. I tried to phone her, but I didn't have any joy.
166. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and make good sentences.
167. I'm sorry if I was a bit short with you on the phone this morning.
168. If you phone during the day you pay the peak rate for calls.
169. While I was talking with a friend on the phone, he suddenly hung it up.
170. I answered the phone but there was no one at the other end.
171. I got more and more angry as I waited for her to phone.
172. The first thing I did when I got home was to phone up Jo and catch up on all the gossip.
More similar words: telephone, honor, photo, catch on, honestly, touch on, switch on, metaphor, photograph, photography, photographer.