Sentence examples for playing phone from inspiring English sources

Now, they say, they may have to go back to playing phone tag.

"Everybody was playing phone tag: label calling management, yada yada," Ms. Lavigne, 18, said last month.

Mr. O'Malley said the two had been playing phone tag since he heard about Mr. Bloomberg's decision to donate last week.

As with most general managers around the league, Scott Layden has been playing phone tag with a lot of teams as the Feb. 24 trade deadline nears.

"I wanted to tell the coach, but we kept playing phone tag right up until the plane took off," he said.

Another senator, Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, has his own measure, and the two men have been playing phone tag trying to set up a time to talk about their proposals.

Just a single school and I was always exchanging emails and playing phone-tag with coaches; not to mention all the new pressure it placed on me for the need to perform at cross country meets.

We played phone tag, traded banter, and became friendly.

For her, I had to play phone tag with a literary agent, who ultimately demanded payment to start a conversation.

We sometimes talk once or twice a week or we may play phone tag for a month.

They have played phone tag since Jackson was traded to the Knicks last Thursday, ribbing one another about who will get the better of Tuesday's matchup.