cell phone
noun
variants
or less commonly cellphone
plural cell phones also cellphones
: a portable usually cordless telephone for use in a cellular system
Examples of cell phone in a Sentence
Call me on my cell phone.
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Mark Faithfull, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
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—Evan Drellich, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Last year, another editor was taken aside by security and asked to delete photos off his cell phone.
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—Katie Langford, Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2025
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Mark Faithfull, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
The latter required her to make sure players were not improperly using their cell phones when they weren’t supposed to be in the wake of the Houston Astros’ electronic sign-stealing scandal.
—Evan Drellich, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Last year, another editor was taken aside by security and asked to delete photos off his cell phone.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 5 Apr. 2025
Dao House employees stay in a different building and there is no cell phone service at the facility, attorneys with Denver firm Cheney Galluzi & Howard wrote in the lawsuit.
—Katie Langford, Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2025
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“Cell phone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cell%20phone. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.
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