WordNet
Usage examples of "telephone set".
There was a telephone set into the walnut console between the jump seats.
Peter saw a group of people near a telephone set in an alcove in the wall.
In one corner of the living-room there was a radio telephone set run off a large battery, with which the ranger could communicate with his headquarters in case of forest fires or similar disasters.
Dicky Lancome sat with the voice-piece of the telephone set on the desk in front of him and the ear-piece held loosely to his cheek, trapped there by a hunched shoulder while he trimmed his finger-nails with a gold-plated penknife.
There was a telephone set tucked into a small cubby and the woman handed her the receiver.
After he had dropped his jacket on the floor beside it, he reached for the telephone set on an otherwise empty shelf.
Though he no longer spoke of mechanical engineering and though he was reticent about his opinion of his instructors, he seemed no more reconciled to college, and his chief interest was his wireless telephone set.
Something he said on the telephone set me to thinking, and I decided to come back and make sure everything was alright.