How to Use phone book in a Sentence

phone book

noun
  • Pence said Bernard took him in an elevator and beat him with a phone book.
    — Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Nov. 2025
  • James McAvoy the actor can read the phone book and make that fantastic.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
  • My money is on the guy who might not be able to jump over a phone book but still finds his shot dropping into the net in traffic.
    — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2025
  • The end credits, teeming with his screen-packing array of golfers, dancers, staff, guests, and passersby, resemble a local phone book.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026
  • There was a phone book, camera film canisters, metal pins, the tattered remains of a baseball cap and an orange t-shirt with the outline of a giant thumbs up.
    — Rylan Digiacomo-Rapp, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2026
  • In fact, one of them is named in Epstein's phone book, not the secret files that the FBI is keeping, but in Epstein's phone book.
    — ABC News, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Perna can read a phone book into his camera and get laughs, Keys said, and the visual humor of editors Barker and Sherrill completes the package.
    — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Watching her in The Beaver is akin to asking Steph Curry to just shoot free throws or Daniel Day-Lewis to merely read the phone book.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The Miami rapper participated in ELLE’s latest episode of Phoning It In, a series that sees celebrities prank calling various people in their phone book.
    — Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • My father, Aldo, opened its doors in 1984, selling salads and carpaccios at a moment when the New York dining landscape was divided, as one critic put it, between old-style red-sauce spots and fancy Frenchified salons with menus the size of a small-town phone book.
    — Gea Bozzi, Air Mail, 16 May 2026
  • Guevara and two colleagues, Mason and then-Detective Ernest Halvorson, orchestrated a frame-up by coercing one witness to identify Rios by beating him with a phone book and flashlight, and another by threatening to charge him with obstruction, according to the plaintiffs’ allegations.
    — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Guevara and two colleagues, then-detectives Michael Mason and Ernest Halvorson, then orchestrated a frame-up by coercing one witness to identify Rios by beating him with a phone book and flashlight, and another by threatening to charge him with obstruction, according to the plaintiffs’ allegations.
    — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2026

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