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How to use telephones in a sentence

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Field telephones and teleprinters, using land lines or temporary wire, were also used extensively, especially in the rear areas.
She would answer telephones, make calls to customers and generally act in the same way as an employee.
Yet do our televisions, telephones, videos and other consumer goods represent affluence or poverty?
Tests were run over telephones and intercoms to determine optimum degrees of loudness for giving instructions and commands.
It helps to have more than one communication system like intercoms, telephones and radios, according to Layne.
All units are plumbed for gas and wired for cable television, telephones and alarm systems.
Radio and telephones could communicate between cities, ships and higher headquarters, but they were too bulky to be man-carried.
His telephones were bugged and, sources say, warrants were obtained to insert listening devices in his home.
During EBA stoppages in Brisbane earlier this year, it was accused of bugging the telephones of ETU officials.
To be sure, dials and telephones were like new music releases and 45s. Nowadays, it is difficult to find one or the other.
In Parts Conversation, several old-fashioned dial telephones are subjected to increasingly severe mutilations.
Teens and young adults will come of age taking the Internet for granted, as their parents did television, as their grandparents did telephones.
But at intermission, people ran to telephones and summoned their friends, announcing that something magnificent was happening.
Households with telephones were sampled randomly, with a probability proportional to the size of the HSA in which they resided.
Walking back into the town centre, Simon spotted that several of the public telephones had been installed with a new minicom system.
People near and far are deluged with congratulatory messages over the telephones.
Many are extending their show specials, relying heavily on telephones and stepping up the one-on-one visits of their sales representatives.
By 1887 there were 26,000 telephones in use in Britain and multiple switchboards had been installed in most major towns and cities.
The first modems were hooked up to telephones through little speakers and microphones in a cradle that held the telephone handpiece.
She smiled politely and pointed to the telephones and asked me whether I had been set up with a password to use it.
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All the telephones in the astoria could not accommodate the frantic people who sought them.
Louis went down to the telephones, used one after consulting a little black book.
Two telephones are now used, and the punched tape has in it five rows of perforations.
They carry portable telephones with which they can communicate with their platoon.
Hubbard was quick to seize this opportunity, and at once lent Holmes a dozen telephones.
South America, outside of Buenos Ayres, has few telephones, probably not more than thirty thousand.
There were telephones upon his desk, a tape machine, and a private instrument connected with the telegraph department.
And by 1901 they had put in use more than a million telephones and were professing to have a capital of a hundred millions.
In the mansion that he built at Arden, there were a hundred telephones, sixty of them linked to the long-distance lines.
Of the seven million telephones in the United States, about two million are now in farmhouses.
Barton, the sagacious founder of the Western Electric, went to France and England to establish an export trade in telephones, and failed.
It added to the Bell System fifty-six thousand telephones in fifty-five cities.
There are barely as many telephones in the whole of France as ought normally to be in the city of Paris.
There were clicks from telegraph wires, scraps of talk from other telephones, and curious little squeals that were unlike any known sound.
This was brave talk at that time, when there were not in the whole world as many telephones as there are to-day in Cincinnati.
One statistician has given us a total of three million dollars a day as the amount saved by using telephones.
He pushed his country forward until, having one hundred and sixty-five thousand telephones, it stood fourth among the European nations.
It would make two-thirds of the telephones, cables, and switchboards of all countries.
Likewise they advocated, as a cure for local ills, municipal ownership of such public utilities as water, gas, telephones, and street railways.
Be aware that doorknobs, telephones, and computer keyboards may harbor dangerous germs.
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