Sentence examples for off the telephone from inspiring English sources

He didn't want to get off the telephone either.

When asked how he had learned about the incident, Mr. Rubaie said he did not want to answer and abruptly cut off the telephone interview.

On a day of hectic comings and goings from Easter Road, Lennon must have been relieved just to come off the telephone and watch these 90 minutes of football.

"What kind of vodka was she drinking?" asked Jennifer Marcellus, a spokeswoman for the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, before begging off the telephone to go research the matter.

He explained that he was in Macy's on the same day for the same reason and had read her list on the personal shopper's desk while waiting for her to get off the telephone.

There is W. H. Auden's "Funeral Blues": "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,/ Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,/Silence the pianos and with muffled drum/Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come".

Researchers think that a massive die-off of the telephone-polelike lycopsid trees, certain fern species, and some marine creatures occurred around the same time.

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephones.

Gibbs received threatening letters from the Rhodesian public, and on 26 November 1965 Smith's government cut off the telephones at Government House, and removed the ceremonial guard, the official cars "and even the typewriters", Wood records.

He may well be deeply versed in world affairs, though it would be hard to say on the strength of the 45-minute off-the-record telephone conversation that I was permitted to have with him and Rice.

At the home of Mr. Maitre, a group of people ran through the garden carrying off sows and piglets, and another man ran off with the telephone.