Sentence examples for put down the receiver from inspiring English sources

Nachman put down the receiver.

I put down the receiver.

He put down the receiver so hard it clattered.

But Alice looked at me forlornly as we put down the receiver.

After a long time she put down the receiver, but she remained standing there, and then she picked up the phone again and dialled another number.

After Louboutin convinced the policeman that he was but a coincidental contact — the card was from one of his boutiques — he put down the receiver and started sketching.

He described Saakashvili putting down the receiver: "He got pale.

Fraudsters can keep your phone line open by not putting down the receiver at their end.

"If you want Charles, you can't speak to him, he's too busy," she would say, putting down the receiver.

She developed an obsessive-compulsive disorder, constantly wringing her hands or picking up and putting down the receiver on the phone.

Consumers have been warned to be wary of cold callers who suggest they hang up the phone and call them back; fraudsters can keep a phone line open by not putting down the receiver at their end.