The payphone is the twenty-first century horse-trough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: December 29, 2002 - January 4, 2003 Archives] Reference

Promptly at two, he called the payphone outside Bloomingdale’s.    From Wordnik.com.  [A STRANGER IS WATCHING] Reference

Cavazos speaks English, Spanish, and French, and is inviting everyone to call the payphone using Skype for a quick chat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alpha.CNET.com: Most recent posts] Reference

Prepaid services have been further adapted to offer mobile 'payphone' services.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mobile Africa] Reference

"You could call from a payphone," the Brit suggested.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Diel: Brothel Watch] Reference

Squinty, a few blocks away and calling from a payphone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yay For Pleasant Surprises When You're Consumed With Thoughts Of Death] Reference

GRACE: Why would the Coast Guard be checking a payphone?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2008] Reference

My cell phone did not work; fine, I could use a payphone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Oates Palmer: The Mundane Details] Reference

Telkom said the cost of using a payphone would also rise.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

I had to run out to the payphone and make a round of calls.    From Wordnik.com.  [partygirl Diary Entry] Reference

At first, Bingham tried to find a payphone, to call the man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Time] Reference

If this happens to you, simply move on to the next payphone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phrack Issue #15 (Shooting Shark's Issue)] Reference

Only payphone users would not be able to get their money back.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

There's a payphone in the back; he can see it through the window.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blink] Reference

I take down the number, track down a payphone and call the number.    From Wordnik.com.  [What have I got myself into? Part 3] Reference

I cross back to the other side of the street and pick up the payphone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holy Adam and Saint Jason] Reference

LIZ NEISLOSS, CNN PRODUCER: Well, actually I'm on a payphone right now.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2003] Reference

The payphone lawsuit initially was thrown out by a federal trial judge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Supreme Court Turns Away] Reference

I ` m calling from the payphone because nobody can do anything about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2007] Reference

He met up with Miss Murphy on Monday when he saw her crying at a payphone.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2003] Reference

I had to look for a payphone with change if I needed to contact my parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan: Law Banning Cell Phones for Kids Passed in Ishikawa] Reference

"A king's ransom of dimes I give each night to speak through this payphone ...".    From Wordnik.com.  [jaxraven Diary Entry] Reference

Sure, there are phone stands - posts with a payphone attached and zero privacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick Carr: The Last Phone Booths In Manhattan] Reference

Why the Coast Guard would be dragged in to checking a payphone on Aruban island.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2008] Reference

The only time she had ever called him was from that payphone outside the theater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camera Obscura] Reference

At another payphone store, I tried to see how much talking I could do for five naira.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2008] Reference

The lobby was closed, or I would have gone in to see if this payphone is still there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick Carr: Halloween in NY: Rosemary's Baby] Reference

On the way, we had to stop at a payphone so one of them could call in sick to work (!).    From Wordnik.com.  [withkerth Diary Entry] Reference

They work by duplicating the tones coins make when they are deposited into a payphone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taco Bell Syndicate Issue #1 by Shredder] Reference

The coldness of the payphone as a result of the exaggerated, unnecessary air-conditioning.    From Wordnik.com.  [overtaken Diary Entry] Reference

They stop at a payphone where Julia makes a call while Mark studies a store window display.    From Wordnik.com.  [FallNews - all mud and witches] Reference

It's not known who made that phone call police have now traced to this payphone in Brooklyn.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2006] Reference

Officers responded in less than two minutes and confronted the primary suspect at a payphone.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Santa Monica Hostage Standoff Ends as Gunman Surrenders - July 4, 2000] Reference

This does not imply, however, that you can stand by a payphone and wait for them to call back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phrack Issue #15 (Shooting Shark's Issue)] Reference

We'd called Maureen from a museum payphone to let her know that we wouldn't be meeting her as planned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anaphylaxis] Reference

In his search to get it back, Jeff uses a payphone to call the opera-rator, sung by Torin Spellman-Diaz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imani Winds Hits Its Mark on 'Josephine Baker'] Reference

Wilbanks places a collect call from a payphone outside this convenience store in Albuquerque, New Mexico.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2005] Reference

And he -- we got the caller I.D. phone number from the payphone, wherever figure out you know, that number.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2005] Reference

He took his beer (flat, no head) and went to his usual booth, which was wedged in at the front of the room next to the broken payphone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Percy's Night Out] Reference