How to Use landline in a Sentence

landline

noun
  • The lights go out and a landline rings.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Their phones die too, even the landline; the fridge and stove, the lights.
    — Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The kids have access to a landline phone and their bikes.
    — Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 4 June 2026
  • The system can send alerts to cell phones and call landlines.
    — Molly Walsh | [email protected], cleveland, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Maybe someone would call on a landline.
    — Natalia V. Osipova, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026
  • No one had cell phones in those days, so our landline was our lifeline.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2021
  • How many old phones was too many for a person who didn’t have a landline?
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Alerts can be sent out through a cell phone or landline calls, text messages and emails.
    — Rocky Baier, azcentral, 18 July 2019
  • The outside of the jail and the landline phone that was destroyed.
    — Jared Gilmour, sacbee, 28 June 2018
  • Who doesn’t want to see the inner workings of a landline phone?
    — Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
  • For calls of that sort, a landline is required, or so my psyche thinks.
    — Max, Longreads, 12 May 2020
  • That pesky landline ringing off the hook — who even has those anymore?
    — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2022
  • No one has landlines anymore but even those weren’t working.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The phone would have the same phone number as any other landline phones in your home.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 25 Apr. 2023
  • At night, unknown numbers called my cell and landline.
    — Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026
  • As cell phone use has risen sharply over the past two decades the use of landline phones has declined sharply.
    — Mike Rogoway, oregonlive.com, 24 June 2019
  • If only all of life's problems could be solved by a call to a landline telephone.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 5 July 2020
  • What if your kid demands a smartphone instead of a landline?
    — Kara Alaimo, CNN Money, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Desks are covered in a thin layer of dust, a landline phone lays upside on the ground.
    — Cnn Staff, CNN, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Ally had to find a landline to call her children or send a fax instead of emails and texts.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2024
  • Cell service was spotty, so a kind young couple took us to their home to use the landline.
    — Washington Post, 21 July 2021
  • Prior to the $45 fee, landline phone users were billed a $3 charge per month.
    — Charlie Coleman, Cincinnati.com, 10 May 2017
  • The landlines were already down when Suzy tried to call her mom the morning of the fire.
    — Laura Newberry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2019
  • About two-thirds of the group were interviewed on cellphones and one-third on landlines.
    — Casey Tolan, The Mercury News, 31 May 2017
  • Inside the kitchen, the landline phone was missing, and the shelves were nearly bare.
    — Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 9 May 2023
  • But the landline phones still worked, and people stranded in their homes had little else to do but talk to us.
    — cleveland, 6 Mar. 2021
  • So, without a landline, you're stranded.
    — Meghan Schiller, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2026
  • From the art on the walls, to the desk in the window, to the landline phone, no detail was left untouched.
    — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Once connected, the landline acts just like your cellphone.
    — Jennifer Liu valentina Duarte, CNBC, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Social niceties are going the way of the dodo and landline telephone these days.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 7 Aug. 2021

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