Sentence examples for a warning telephone from inspiring English sources

Suggestions(1)

The phrase "a warning telephone" is not commonly used in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a context where a telephone is specifically designated for issuing warnings or alerts, but this is not a standard expression.
Example: "In case of an emergency, please use the warning telephone located in the hallway to alert the authorities."
Alternatives: "emergency phone" or "alert phone".

Exact(2)

For that innocuous remark, the Sabres received a warning telephone call from the league office.

Officials said the explosion followed a warning telephone call in the name of the Basque separatist movement, ETA.

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The police said they had received a warning by telephone minutes before the explosion from a man who claimed to represent the E.T.A.

The I.R.A. had planted the device, which weighed more than three thousand pounds; a warning was issued, by telephone, an hour and a half before the explosion.

The police were telephoned with a warning and evacuated the area, and there were no injuries.

The problem with remembering Bill Shankly – as Liverpool did yesterday ahead of today's centenary of his birth – is the sense it creates of how far they have fallen from the years when he ruled with enough impunity to laughingly dish out toilet rolls to the opposition and telephone Don Revie with a warning on nights before Leeds United were in town.

A senior American official told reporters today that the move to the ship had been decided for "a variety of reasons," including the need for improved security after a warning of a truck-bombing was telephoned to the hotel on Wednesday night.

The bombings occurred as many people were leaving the city on a holiday weekend, but after a telephone warning from the Basque militant group ETA to a newspaper an hour before they exploded, the ministry said.

By telephone he told two of the young terrorists, who were killing people in a Jewish center, to speak a warning: "This is just a trailer.

A warning?

They are a warning.

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