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/tˈɛləfˌoʊn kˌɑnvərsˈeɪʃən/ Listen

Telephone conversation

noun

A conversation over the telephone.

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"Telephone conversation" Quotes from Famous Books

... they were mistaken. It was enfilade fire from German batteries. But often it happened according to the way of that telephone conversation in the ...

— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs

... He does not write, because he knows that the man would tear up the letter and he does not telephone, because he knows that the man would not promise to see him and that if he were to call after such a telephone conversation his chances for ...

— The Book of Business Etiquette • Nella Henney

... sergeant needed no further bidding. In a few graphic words he outlined his telephone conversation with Spike Walters. ...

— Midnight • Octavus Roy Cohen

... A long-distance telephone conversation about six o'clock in the afternoon between two voices usually so even and composed that the little pulse of excitement beating through both as they speak now seems perilous, unnatural. One is Mr. Severance's thin cool speech and the other—most curious, that—seems by every ...

— Young People's Pride • Stephen Vincent Benet

... not a word of thanks. I did not expect thanks and I made allowances for the state of mind at the mansion; but that telephone conversation, particularly Mrs. Colton's share in it, cast a gloom over my spirits. I did not care to hear more of Mr. Atwood's yarns and jokes. I went to my own room, but ...

— The Rise of Roscoe Paine • Joseph C. Lincoln