Below you will find example sentences with "phone call". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Phone Call in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: call
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 12
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 28.1 words

Words in this phrase

phone call

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • phone can mean: A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of r... Common word
  • call can mean: To reach out with one's voice. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

a frantic phone call before he 1× a phone call a very 1× a simple phone call 1× being a phone call to his 1× his july phone call with ukrainian 1× including the phone call she made 1× made a phone call to the 1× make a phone call instead of 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a phone call 1× a source who 1× after handing over 1× at t phone 1× he pretends to 1× if the employee 1×

Common sentence endings:

a whistleblower complaint 1× an unwanted call 1× call in shift 1× call will not 1× creepy phone calls 1× fabricated phone call 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

person 4× accused 3× shift 3× don 3× voice 3× customers 2× use 2× block 2× callers 2× down 2× told 2× mobile 2×

Related phrases

mobile phone cell phone android phone phone calls call centre via phone

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around call:

call centre 15×

Just before it in the phrase index:

phoenix suns phoenix police phoenix force phoenix arizona philippines president philippines ngcp

Just after it in the phrase index:

phone calls photo shoot photo taken photos app phrasal categories physical abuse

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

phone calls

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "phone call" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a frantic phone call before he, a phone call a very, person, accused and shift stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with mobile phone, cell phone, android phone and call centre, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with phone call

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

A phone call, a very good phone call. (8 words)

That one phone call sparked an entire franchise that centers on creepy phone calls. (14 words)

If you are using a mobile phone, a text message may get through when a phone call will not. (19 words)

Longer example sentences

Jay, 19, has been missing since Monday (June 17), with the last known contact being a phone call to his friend Lucy Mae where he expressed that he was lost in a rural area and his phone battery was down to one percent. (43 words)

After handing over the money to the accused, Mr. Bangura told the Court that the accused person`s mobile phone rang and based on the phone call, the accused person went out of the office with the pretext of taking the call. (42 words)

If the employee was not scheduled to work a Show-Up shift before a Call-In shift, then the employee was required to make a phone call to her manager between thirty minutes and one hour before the scheduled Call-In shift. (42 words)

Exclamation examples

Watch my entire interview with Drew in the video player above – including the phone call she made to the most famous person in her phone! (25 words)

Example sentences (20)

AT&T Phone customers can use Digital Phone Call Protect to block up to 100 callers, while traditional home phone customers can block up to 10 callers by pressing *60 after an unwanted call.

He pretends to pick up the phone and then dramatically slams the imaginary phone down, ending the fabricated phone call.

A phone call, a very good phone call.

After handing over the money to the accused, Mr. Bangura told the Court that the accused person`s mobile phone rang and based on the phone call, the accused person went out of the office with the pretext of taking the call.

The phone call took place the day after Trump had his July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that sparked a whistleblower complaint.

If the employee was not scheduled to work a Show-Up shift before a Call-In shift, then the employee was required to make a phone call to her manager between thirty minutes and one hour before the scheduled Call-In shift.

That said, Live Caption and Recorder don’t work if you’re on a phone call, voice call, or video call.

That one phone call sparked an entire franchise that centers on creepy phone calls.

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Watch my entire interview with Drew in the video player above – including the phone call she made to the most famous person in her phone!

Inmates could use them to make a phone call instead of having to wait for a phone to become available.

Jay, 19, has been missing since Monday (June 17), with the last known contact being a phone call to his friend Lucy Mae where he expressed that he was lost in a rural area and his phone battery was down to one percent.

Ms Law said Mr Slater told her in a frantic phone call before he went missing that he was "lost in the mountains, he wasn't aware of his surroundings, he desperately needed a drink and his phone was on one percent".

The handy translation features introduced in January are also there, so you can translate a real-time phone call (and it translates your voice back to the other person too regardless of what phone they have).

There are – rare – instances where someone’s phone could be hacked but that couldn’t be facilitated through a simple phone call.

A source who pleaded anonymity, said on phone that the NLC Chairman was making a phone call within his residence when his abductors took him away.

When members of the Correspondents’ Chapel made a phone call to the arrested journalist, his phone line was not going through.

If you are using a mobile phone, a text message may get through when a phone call will not.

Imagine a loved one receiving a phone call that appears to be from your phone, and when answered a stranger’s voice says that you’ve been kidnapped and threatens your life unless a ransom is given.

Rodgers asked during the recorded phone call, to which Kelly replied, “I don’t know about no situation… I don’t never talk about nothing, to nobody on the phone.

The similarity in the text messages and phone call is that they were all "spoofed" communications — appearing to be from the actual phone numbers of people and organizations, but really stolen caller ID's, Chasse said.

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