How to Use call box in a Sentence
call box
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Some might even be surprised to know that call boxes were still around.
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Heather McRea,
Oc Register,
14 Apr. 2026
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What did those people do before those call boxes were there?
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Heather McRea,
Oc Register,
14 Apr. 2026
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When a tire blows out or the engine overheats, fewer than one person a day in the last year has gotten out of their car on the side of the freeway and trudged to a call box.
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Heather McRea,
Oc Register,
14 Apr. 2026
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Another camera captured him dialing a number on a call box before being buzzed inside.
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Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
15 Sep. 2025
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Visitors should look for the locations of emergency call boxes and Stop the Bleed kits at beaches.
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Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
9 June 2026
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The blue-light emergency call boxes scattered across campus—once considered cutting-edge—now feel obsolete in a world where every student carries a smartphone.
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Kevin Mullins,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Another surveillance camera recorded Sims dialing a number on a call box before being buzzed inside.
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Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
24 Nov. 2025
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Most universities still rely heavily on legacy infrastructure like stationary blue-light call boxes and emergency notification systems (ENS)—tools designed for mass alerts or large-scale threats.
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Kevin Mullins,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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In 2008, 7,306 people used a call box in OC and the next year — when one transportation official compared the waning use of call boxes to photo labs or cassette tapes — more call boxes were going to be removed to spread them to about every mile on public freeways.
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Heather McRea,
Oc Register,
14 Apr. 2026
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With the decline in usage and the availability of the 5-1-1 motorist assistance program, the Orange County Transportation Authority board gave its blessing this week to remove the remaining 175 call boxes along local freeways by June 2027.
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Heather McRea,
Oc Register,
14 Apr. 2026
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In an update Monday evening, the Santa Cruz office of the California Highway Patrol said the driver of a black 2017 Honda Pilot SUV traveled off the edge of the road, struck a call box and drove through vegetation before going over the cliff.
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Carlos E. Castañeda,
CBS News,
19 May 2026
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