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telephoning

n. The act of placing a telephone call. vb. (present participle of telephone English)

Usage examples of "telephoning".

As this is private, between you and me, and I am telephoning from my own house?

Nim Goldman was already telephoning Public Relations, over in another building.

Thurston Jones had opened a metal box and was telephoning, giving orders.

He had been in another room of his home, telephoning, and had just returned to Nim, who was in the living room, wearing a borrowed bathrobe, his left hand bandaged, the right nursing a stiff scotch and water.

Details, as you must know, is a composite affair, with a whole bunch of journalists digging out nuggets and also a network of informants in hospitals, mortuaries, night clubs, police stations and all sorts of less savoury places, telephoning in with the dirt and collecting their dues.

Lambourn, ate some lobster and an orange, and thought about telephoning Holly.

They heard him telephoning in the entrance hall, although they could not make out the words.

It entirely lightened and enlivened the evening, which passed more easily than some of the others: but there was still no one telephoning in response to the advertisements, and there was again no sound from Nanterre.

Sussex, telephoning to Danielle on the way to tell her where and why we were going.