How to Use landline in a Sentence

landline

noun
Definition of landlinenext
  • Their phones die too, even the landline; the fridge and stove, the lights.
    — Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
  • From the art on the walls, to the desk in the window, to the landline phone, no detail was left untouched.
    — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The system can send alerts to cell phones and call landlines.
    — Molly Walsh | Mwalsh@cleveland.com, cleveland, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The only way to reach Todd Snider is to call his landline.
    — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The basic unit connects to a landline and has a range of 1,300 feet.
    — Dallas News, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Inside the kitchen, the landline phone was missing, and the shelves were nearly bare.
    — Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 9 May 2023
  • The poll was taken by landline and cell phone last week.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The phone would have the same phone number as any other landline phones in your home.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 25 Apr. 2023
  • If a landline isn't available, a cell phone can be used.
    — Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 5 June 2023
  • As with Echo devices, calls to landline and cell numbers in the US are free.
    — David Nield, Popular Science, 22 June 2020
  • The poll ran from July 5-11 using landline, cell-phone and text-to-web.
    — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 14 July 2022
  • This town has one landline telephone in the entire town.
    — Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The duo took first place in the landline rescue race, third place in the surfboat race and fourth place in the board rescue race.
    — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Falling in line with both of the past episodes, Swift spoke the title into a red landline phone.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Desks are covered in a thin layer of dust, a landline phone lays upside on the ground.
    — Cnn Staff, CNN, 4 Aug. 2022
  • No one had cell phones in those days, so our landline was our lifeline.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2021
  • The cell phone/landline poll was conducted Sept. 29 through Oct. 2.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2022
  • That pesky landline ringing off the hook — who even has those anymore?
    — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2022
  • That may have worked when most people called from landlines.
    — Natalie Eilbert, Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2024
  • For calls of that sort, a landline is required, or so my psyche thinks.
    — Max, Longreads, 12 May 2020
  • Ally had to find a landline to call her children or send a fax instead of emails and texts.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2024
  • Cell service was spotty, so a kind young couple took us to their home to use the landline.
    — Washington Post, 21 July 2021
  • But the landline phones still worked, and people stranded in their homes had little else to do but talk to us.
    — cleveland, 6 Mar. 2021
  • In the past, phones had only one sound: the shrill, continuous ring of a landline.
    — Krystal Hur, CNN, 23 June 2024
  • The same was true in the landline age, when there was a dedicated circuit for each phone call.
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
  • In the era of landlines, a PR/TT meant getting a record of all the incoming and outgoing calls from a phone.
    — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
  • Many say their calls are unable to connect to landlines.
    — Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2019
  • If only all of life's problems could be solved by a call to a landline telephone.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 5 July 2020
  • Social niceties are going the way of the dodo and landline telephone these days.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 7 Aug. 2021
  • Fifty years ago, the only way a lawyer could communicate with his clients was in-person, by a landline phone, or by U.S. mail.
    — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024

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