How to Use pay phone in a Sentence

pay phone

noun
  • Twin looked at the pay phone, then down at the dead boy.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Schneider was in great voice, returning to the pay phone a time or two before the set was through.
    — Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Emory occasionally sent money, and the brothers would walk to a pay phone to call him.
    — Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • Thompson was drunk and talking on a pay phone outside a liquor store, authorities said.
    — CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The pay phone host provides power, an internet connection, and a place to install the unit.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Gross’s decision to approve the pay phone project seemed to stem from a frightening incident.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Users who approach a RandTel pay phone will see a blue-and-white card that briefly explains the project’s mission.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Schlott says community members requested the library pay phone in part for this reason.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The narrator has an important conversation with his mother on a pay phone.
    — Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The question, delivered via pay phone, is an old security prompt, and Bob, with a memory fried by pot and booze, cannot remember the answer.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Gwen’s dreams suggest some kind of connection between her and three of the Grabber’s victims, as well as her dead mom, who calls her from a pay phone at a Christian winter camp (run by Demián Bichir).
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
  • For ordinary people, the physical paper is joining the pay phone, the cassette tape, the answering machine, the bank check, the sound of the internal combustion engine and the ivory-white pair of women’s gloves as objects whose disappearance marks the passage of time.
    — Michael Weissenstein, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2025
  • One scene that really hit Tatum hard is Jeffrey calling his daughter Becky (Alissa Marie Pearson) from a pay phone while on the run and being overcome emotionally hearing her voice.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025

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