Sentence examples for a human telephone from inspiring English sources

The book's keynotes are its brilliant visual similes, which cause the poems to lurch off in unexpected directions: pigs' heads on a butcher's slab are "pallid putti" with "ears like wings"; a weightlifter looks like a "human telephone"; beach-side palm trees are "nature's swizzle-sticks" that "stir the afternoon air / to a sky-blue cocktail / of ozone and dead fish".

Nowadays, a live, human telephone answerer is likely to provoke an eerily familiar response: "Uh--oh.

At the same time, some research indicates that face-to-face interviews and human telephone calls (ICM, Populus, Mori and Opinium) are more like to prompt a "shy" response than the more anonymous "robo-call" telephone surveys or internet polls (YouGov and Angus Reid).

I asked BP and they thought it might be the Coast Guard but were not sure.Eventually I managed to get through to a human being on the telephone at what is called the "Joint Information Centre".

Speak by telephone to a human in what was, once, my bank.

"The conditions were absolutely horrific, a human rights disaster," he said via telephone after his release.

"The situation is very tense," John Rumbiak, a human rights activist, said in a telephone interview from Jayapura, the provincial capital.

P If I just could get a telephone number to a human I could call if something happens.

Tensions have been on the rise since the April riots, Bildora Khamidova, a human rights worker in Osh, said by telephone.

"Cloning is making a copy of a human being who already exists," Dr. Grifo said in a telephone interview yesterday.

"They want to finish everything this week," a human rights advocate in the city, Syria's third largest, said by telephone.