Sentence examples for phone to explain from inspiring English sources

She turns back to the phone to explain.

He'd listened as they called their parents and he'd insisted on getting on the phone to explain who he was and what the situation was.

It explains why Nazir didn't walk away with his cell phone, to explain the pacemaker plan out of earshot of the C.I.A. operative he'd kidnapped.

Dennett annotated the paper on his computer, and then called Humphrey on his cell phone to explain that the paper was so useful because it was so wrong.

He persuaded the person at the other end of the phone to explain how to connect to the FBI's phone conferencing system".

Ask the financial aid office — by e-mail, not by phone — to explain which grants in the aid offer will automatically renew in subsequent years, as long as you make satisfactory academic progress.

It is only when a long-suffering buddy turns up to vouch for him and pay off his bail that Dae-su is allowed out, but while his friend is calling his home from a pay-phone to explain what's happened, Dae-su is abducted and wakes up, locked in what appears to be a tatty hotel room.

One gay young American footballer typically phoned to explain: "I have to call the other guys 'fags', especially other athletes.

It is hardly surprising that chief executives and members of compensation committees are not rushing to the phones to explain their behavior.

Ironically, the EFF uses a metaphor about wiretapping cell phones to explain the government's thought process behind CALEA 2.0: "If we applied the FBI's logic to the phone system it would state that every individual phone should be designed with built-in bugs".

The 6 p.m. phone call to explain the president's thinking, or some internal debate, seems to be a lost art (and a hard one, now, because it violates the new aversion to citing yet another "senior administration official").