How to Use answering service in a Sentence

answering service

noun
  • The doctor is not in the office now, but you can reach her answering service at this number if you have an emergency.
  • That neurologist wasn’t on call, she was told by the answering service, but someone would call her back.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Note that there is a huge difference between an answering service and an intake service.
    — Yec, Forbes, 7 July 2021
  • Meanwhile, Jeana called Holmes’s answering service and left the number.
    — Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
  • His father owned a furniture store and later a telephone answering service.
    — Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Calls to many local funeral homes went to voice mail, answering services or just rang endlessly as the area deals with widespread power outages.
    — Alex Harris and Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 13 Sep. 2017
  • An answering service has been retained to handle the many calls from people begging for help, now that some parlors are refusing to accept virus victims or are too busy to even answer the phone.
    — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Unable to afford an answering service, Clint notes, Rance and Jean saw to it that one or the other was always home to receive calls about acting jobs.
    — Peter Tonguette, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Already, people are using AI systems in their homes, in less human-sounding phone answering services, and many other applications.
    — Jason Lemon, ajc, 11 May 2018
  • Ruby provides a centralized answering service for medical practices, law firms, repair services and other businesses too small to have their own operators.
    — oregonlive, 12 May 2022
  • The state currently provides an answering service through which residents seeking appointments can only leave messages, Alaska Public Media reports.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2021
  • Office Evolution also provides phone-answering services, address and mail services and other professional capabilities.
    — Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, 8 Jan. 2020
  • In one bucket used by a real estate answering services company, NBC News found millions of voicemails, mostly apartment inquiries and maintenance requests, that included the caller’s name and cell phone number.
    — NBC News, 29 Dec. 2019
  • After her romance author character Carol caused Zosia (Karolina Wydra) to have a heart attack while drugging her in attempt to extract information on how to defeat the Others, the hive deserts her in Albuquerque with nothing but the answering service to help her.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2025

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