What is "phoning"

Usage examples of "phoning".

Jack figured that there was a good chance that the man had been phoning from the callbox where Jack had seen him skulking before.

But in late August she was phoning UFO enthusiasts again, showering them with predictions .

Back home they waited for Penny and Tom to arrive before opening their presents, but Johnny, their son, had trouble phoning home from Australia, so the Maxwells were two glasses of wine along the way before they arrived.

When Maude asks who is phoning, the girl only gets cheeky, telling her to mind her own beeswax.

So did the man inside his glass booth at the entrance to the garage: he was now phoning Walter, teHing him to take his taxi and pick up the two pieces of luggage from the Hoffman apartment.

When he and Nancy walked out again into the dimming evening, some fifteen minutes later, Baer roused himself from a preoccupied state to ask her whether she wanted to try phoning Dan.

Phoning the number listed for the Brrr Community Church, he was assured that someone would meet him there.

Maybe he wigged out and did something rash, such as phoning Cleo Rio to warn her I'd been snooping around.

People with grudges found revenge by phoning in anonymous tips, accusing the person they disliked of being the killer.

The mobs' button men ranging on their manhunt kept phoning Cataffo's, increasingly uneasy and frustrated at not locating the fat man.

Are the seal-stampers si phoning off goldpieces to buy themselves counting-boards with beads of ruby and silver?

She had an uncertain moment when I sent for the boy and asked him to bring me sandwiches and milk, but she fielded it nicely by phoning a pal to come and relieve her for a lunch period.

And she had been phoning, phoning, phoning from there in comfort while I tore all over the Middle Atlantic states!

By the time I explained what I was doing there, reiterated that I wasn't given to phoning in prank calls, and heard their second round of lecturing, they hustled me upstairs.

A lot of phoning, a bit of pubbing, a touch of gossip with the local tradesmen-nothing to it.