Sentence examples for telephone like from inspiring English sources

And one of them walks down the hall to the telephone like "the ghost of Hamlet's father in the darkest of midnights".

The internet is important, but the copyright wars treat it as a triviality: like cable TV 2.0; like the second coming of the telephone; like the world's greatest pornography distribution system.

["Langrel": irregular pieces of iron loaded into shell casings for the purpose of ripping the enemy's sails in naval battles; obsolete.] He clutched the telephone like an osculatorium and did not allow himself to think about what lay beyond that instant.

I was on the telephone like a shot.

You were waiting by the telephone like a 16-year-old in the 1950s.

Ekeland spoke to his client in a visitation booth separated by glass, with communication only audible through telephone, "like in the movies".

In 1939, Philco Radio came out with the Mystery Control, a wireless radio remote equipped with a low-frequency, battery-operated transmitter and a telephone-like dial.

FreeWalk1 is able to make social interaction more casual and relaxed than telephone-like telecommunication media.

The reversion back to a telephone-like pay system is intended to subsidize digital infrastructure projects in developing nations.

When one of them tries to establish a video connection with you, the computer rings with a cheerful-sounding telephone-like chime.

You and I will not tolerate radio-like advertisements, nor would we tolerate a telephone-like IVR list of advertisers.