Sentence examples for phoning around from inspiring English sources

"Claire is one of the most honourable agents I know," Williams says, "but there's always the risk that if you give them longer than an hour, they'll start phoning around, trying to get an auction going". Paterson phoned Defoe, who was drinking coffee in a cafe in Holborn.

"I started phoning around, but nobody would take me".

Doing your course preparation in advance could save yourself a lot of phoning around".

And at the end of the day you do some phoning around to check kids are all right," Leyland said.

There are a lot of theories, of course, many of which I heard after I started phoning around for advice.

Kerry has a habit of phoning around among a far-flung network of counsellors to gather conflicting opinions before reaching a decision.

"I leave my phone around sometimes.

I phoned around and talked and pestered and, eventually, persistence paid off.

"I told quite a few people and phoned around because I have friends in the party.

Indeed, simply having your phone around could lower your cognitive capacity.

The players pass the phone around, guessing as many words as they can until time runs out.