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Discover LudwigThe phrase "answer his telephone" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the action of picking up or responding to a phone call directed to someone else.
Example: "When the phone rang, I decided to answer his telephone since he was in the shower."
Alternatives: "pick up his phone" or "respond to his call."
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The younger Mr. Gurlitt has declined all interview requests and refused to answer his telephone or his doorbell.
The two never dated, the friends said, and as Ms. Bulchenko became more alarmed over his behavior, she refused to answer his telephone calls or answer the door when he appeared without warning outside her home.
"Anthony didn't answer his telephone anymore.
He failed to arrive and did not answer his telephone when called.
There was a recordIng saying the number had been disconnected.
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Good doctors learn from their patients, and so it was when Dr. John Wagner answered his telephone one afternoon seven years ago.
We found Mr. Angell chuckling yesterday as he answered his telephone at The New Yorker, where he is a writer and editor.
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Minutes before the Jets' strength coach, Sal Alosi, expressed remorse Monday for purposely tripping an opponent on the sideline during a game the day before, Dicky Maegle answered his telephone in Katy, Tex.
"There's a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow," Mr. Taylor, called "Barbell Man" by the woman who answers his telephone, said on a recent windy afternoon.
After a lot of difficulty I got hold of another artist I knew in Cologne, who located the right address, and although Polke was still not answering his telephone I set off once more, ending up exactly where the first cab had taken me some hours earlier.
There was a recordIng saying the number had been disconnected.
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