Examples of phone card in a Sentence
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Other details flicker briefly into the foreground: her history of drug use, the waning account balance on her phone card.
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Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
The clerk told a deputy sheriff that Williams regularly came into the Sunoco to buy prepaid phone cards, and said Williams came in again on January 19.
—Thomas Lake, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2023
One of those local spots is at JHC Wireless, a Chinatown phone card seller operating behind a tiny counter in the hallway of an East Broadway arcade, which joined the network in 2019.
—Wilfred Chan, Curbed, 30 Dec. 2022
For years, John Susoeff walked from his home two blocks to the Walgreens at Bush and Larkin streets - to pick up prescriptions for him and less mobile neighbors, to get a new phone card and to snag senior discounts the first Tuesday of the month.
—Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 May 2021
Some imposters demand immediate payment only with a prepaid phone card or wire transfer.
—David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Dec. 2020
Along with his job at the IRS, Zilevu ran his own phone card company called MacroTele.
—Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
The phone card saved you money, not time, requiring the input of a long account number, followed by an equally long password, and a no less extensive foreign phone number.
—Pipposts, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019
Items included gaming electronics and phone card products, which were rang up as cash sales.
—cleveland, 20 Dec. 2019
Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
The clerk told a deputy sheriff that Williams regularly came into the Sunoco to buy prepaid phone cards, and said Williams came in again on January 19.
—Thomas Lake, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2023
One of those local spots is at JHC Wireless, a Chinatown phone card seller operating behind a tiny counter in the hallway of an East Broadway arcade, which joined the network in 2019.
—Wilfred Chan, Curbed, 30 Dec. 2022
For years, John Susoeff walked from his home two blocks to the Walgreens at Bush and Larkin streets - to pick up prescriptions for him and less mobile neighbors, to get a new phone card and to snag senior discounts the first Tuesday of the month.
—Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 May 2021
Some imposters demand immediate payment only with a prepaid phone card or wire transfer.
—David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Dec. 2020
Along with his job at the IRS, Zilevu ran his own phone card company called MacroTele.
—Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
The phone card saved you money, not time, requiring the input of a long account number, followed by an equally long password, and a no less extensive foreign phone number.
—Pipposts, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019
Items included gaming electronics and phone card products, which were rang up as cash sales.
—cleveland, 20 Dec. 2019
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Word History
First Known Use
1981, in the meaning defined above
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“Phone card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phone%20card. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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