Sentence examples for working payphone from inspiring English sources

Recently, because of last-minute subway routing changes, she ended up in an unfamiliar neighborhood without a working payphone in sight.

Stopping at the only working payphone, she tried her friends.

It turns out the majority of working payphones are clustered on West End Ave . and by majority I mean there are four.

Well every day I arrived at the courthouse with a huge bag of quarters, and I spent much of my time on that damn payphone working with our organizers around the country and calling people to try and raise money.

The payphone worked for long enough for my dad to tell me that the police told him everyone had been evacuated.

Keep a few quarters because odds are the payphone will still be working.

It is working on LinkNYC, a joint venture between New York City and CityBridge, a consortium involving Sidewalk Labs, to turn defunct payphone booths into digital hubs, and Flow, a more ambitious plan aimed at helping urban areas monitor and manage traffic more effectively.

When I was a volunteer working in hospital radio in my teens, patients who wanted to call their relatives had to wait until a heavy payphone on wheels was trundled up to their bedside.

911" will NOT work on payphones.

In the end I resorted to the old-school payphone on the corner, grateful that it still worked.

He had found a payphone and frantically dialed the NBC radio newsroom, where he worked the story with UPI.