How to Use hotline in a Sentence

hotline

noun
Definition of hotlinenext
  • The hotline is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The hotline is sponsored by FreeConferenceCall.com, which launched it back in 2009 as a way to promote its services.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The violation hotline is staffed around the clock 365 days a year.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 19 Nov. 2022
  • The American Red Cross has a hotline available around the clock.
    — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024
  • Calls from fire victims to a mental health hotline shot up this spring.
    — Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Please note that the hotline cannot give you your refund status for any year other than the 2022 tax year.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Special garbage bins, a 24/7 hotline, scare cartridges, and a bear jail.
    — WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Have conversations about email and phone scams, which evolve all the time, and share resources like the AARP scam hotline.
    — Annaliese Griffin, Fortune, 29 July 2022
  • Calling the hotline from a cell phone provides special perks.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The hotline is a first of its kind in California and is offered in more than 200 languages.
    — Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 21 May 2024
  • Tips to the hotline can remain anonymous, the commission said.
    — Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The mother said the physician reported the incident to the state's child abuse and neglect hotline.
    — Alexandria Brown, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Those who want to surrender will be able to call the hotline and plan with authorities on where and how to turn themselves in.
    — cleveland, 11 Jan. 2023
  • In the District, call the city’s services hotline at 311, and if a dead animal is on a sidewalk or in an alley, crews will pick it up.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The hotline was overseen by Jennifer Loew, then a Metro employee.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
  • In the United States, there is a government hotline to help those affected.
    — Monika Pronczuk, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • According to the park’s wildflower hotline, the first phase of desert blossoms was waning.
    — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 May 2024
  • Almost a quarter of Oregon calls to the mental health crisis hotline have gone unanswered so far this year.
    — Meira Gebel, Axios, 12 July 2024
  • The hotline has had problems going back as far as 2017, according to USA Today.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 27 Sep. 2024
  • That hotline currently only has about a minute wait time, Etheridge said Friday.
    — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
  • The hotline is open during regular business hours and from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. (Eastern time) on Election Day.
    — Nick Hollkamp, The Courier-Journal, 17 May 2023
  • Fund Texas Choice — which helps arrange and cover flights, hotel stays, food and child care — has also reopened its hotline.
    — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Much of those fears dissipated if their peers encouraged them to call crisis hotlines, the study said.
    — Journal Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2024
  • As of last June, the hotline received an average of 10 calls per month that were related to citations.
    — Claire Rush, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Alarm Phone, a network of activists who run a hotline for migrant boats in distress, told AP that people on the ship were desperate for help.
    — Isabelle Butera, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
  • Dispatchers use their skills and training to discern when to transfer calls to the crisis hotline, Butcher said.
    — Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
  • Without leaving their homes, neighbors could easily read the number for the emergency hotline on the sign by the door to report a leak.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 30 July 2024
  • Information on a local suicide hotline and details on the event can be found here.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 25 July 2024
  • There is a hotline that poll workers can call to report issues and get guidance from county officials.
    — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Police also ignored hotline calls placed by pedestrians who warned of swelling crowds before the surge turned deadly.
    — Kim Tong-Hyung, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024

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