The sentence "no one answered the phone" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it to indicate that someone called a telephone number but the call was not answered. For example: "I called the office several times to confirm my appointment, but no one answered the phone."
No one answered the phone on Tuesday at the Chinese Embassy in Washington or the Chinese Consulate in New York, and the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna declined to comment.
An engineer who helped design the Miami pedestrian bridge that collapsed on Thursday called the Florida Department of Transportation two days earlier to report cracks he saw on the bridge, but no one answered the phone, FDOT revealed in a statement Friday.
No one answered the phone number listed on the side of the van or the office.
No one answered the phone at the course on Wednesday.
No one answered the phone at the camp on Thursday.
No one answered the phone at the restaurant on Saturday evening.
No one answered the phones at RTE Title and Escrow LLC in Largo or at Sussex Title LLC in Rockville, also listed as defendants.
As this figure shows, calculation of the participation rate excludes those in the preselected sample who were not contactable because they had died or moved away since the study was planned, or because no-one answered the phone or opened the door.
Meanwhile, no one answers the phone at Bloomberg headquarters on West 40th Street, and there's no voice mail.
No one answers the phone.
In the N.F.L., that doesn't work because no one answers the phone.
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