How to Use burner phone in a Sentence

burner phone

noun
  • How the son was able to pay for the burner phone is a mystery.
    — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 21 Mar. 2025
  • But the move is just to get the kidnapper to turn his burner phone back on, so the FBI can track it.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Police back then knew the client was using a burner phone.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The burner phone clue Police back then knew the client was using a burner phone.
    — Morgan Canty, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Pip invites Ravi to sneak into the Bell household, find the toy bunny, and steal the burner phone.
    — Fletcher Peters, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Jake’s dropped his burner phone, and Misaki hasn’t been able to reach him all day.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2024
  • That, alongside the burner phones, the car, and the pretty close match on the description, was enough for an arrest.
    — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 4 Apr. 2025
  • That night, the burner phone traveled to the area of the woman’s house, according to the document.
    — John Miller, CNN, 21 July 2023
  • The text came from a burner phone, cops confirmed, but it was located near Stanivukovic’s business at the time of the text.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The burner phone was linked to an email account, according to court records.
    — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • One day, Jon called Gold’s housekeeper from a burner phone.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Your best buy is buying a low-cost smartphone, sometimes called a burner phone.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
  • Police sources told Fox News the suspect dropped a burner phone in an alley after the shooting.
    — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The brief alleges that Adams purchased burner phones used by the suspects to coordinate the killings.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Villar also told Bivins to delete his Instagram page, clear his phone logs and get rid of his burner phone.
    — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The feds also accused Joseph of using a burner phone to text one inmate and warn him of pending searches.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The burner phone should arrive soon, Chitwood his parents.
    — Danielle Paquette, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2023
  • But any dead end is a new page for Pippa, and that toy rabbit harboring a burner phone has been bugging her.
    — Fletcher Peters, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Prosecutors alleged that after each of the murders, the suspect got rid of the burner phones.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 15 July 2023
  • The police claim the killer, meanwhile, used separate burner phones to contact each victim – and, in doing so, gave them their first clue.
    — Samantha Wanderer, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Harry believes reporters used burner phone and destroyed records and that there's been a cover up of the hacking scandal.
    — Staff and Wire Reports., USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
  • The trio used burner phones for communication, the memo alleges.
    — Adam Reiss, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The killer allegedly used four separate burner phones to contact the women.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
  • Evidence revealed the killer had used burner phones to contact victims.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 16 July 2023
  • Canadians are not the only people being urged to travel with burner phones.
    — Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
  • On July 6, she was contacted by a burner phone, and over the next three days there were sixteen interactions between Brainard-Barnes’ phone and the burner, court records show.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2024
  • In theory, whoever used those burner phones also carried a regular phone that pinged the same towers at the same time.
    — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Eventually, Hudson learned that a call was made to a burner phone before the chase, confirming his suspicion that Red was tipped off.
    — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
  • Suffolk County Police At 1:31 a.m., Waterman's phone was again contacted by the same burner phone as the day before.
    — Morgan Canty, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Canadian immigration lawyers have advised people traveling to the United States to bring a burner phone with them amid tensions between the two countries.
    — Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025

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