` There's a pay-phone ... they're welcome to use it. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fleshmarket Close]

Not every major phone company has left the pay-phone market.    From Wordnik.com.  [AT&T Exits Pay Phones,] Reference

Why hadn't she called back at the pay-phone number I'd given her?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pop Goes The Weasel]

"I expect Tracey's phoned you about us, Ian," said Frost, noting the pay-phone on the landing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Frost]

Seeing Writing on Booth AT&T Inc. said it is getting out of the 129-year-old pay-phone business.    From Wordnik.com.  [AT&T Exits Pay Phones,] Reference

He and Spider liked to wander to the white parts of town and put shoe polish on pay-phone receivers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strangers at the Feast] Reference

Just thought he was passing through, but he showed up again and made a phone call over at that pay-phone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Otherworld]

Tannim sat down next to him and fastened his harness, then started the engine and pulled away from the pay-phone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born To Run]

A company spokeswoman declined to say how much revenue the pay-phone business generates, but the number is small and declining.    From Wordnik.com.  [AT&T Exits Pay Phones,] Reference

The pay-phone pinchers made off with 18 handsets and public call boxes last month after cutting the wires and Telkom is furious.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The business is so profitable that one state department of correction has decided to cut-out the middleman the pay-phone company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outrageous rates charged for prison phone calls breaks family ties] Reference

AT&T said it will continue to sell wholesale pay-phone service to independent operators, and it expects them to pick up some of its business.    From Wordnik.com.  [AT&T Exits Pay Phones,] Reference

Congress that directs the Federal Communications Commission to exercise its authority to intercede on behalf of consumers with sensible regulation of the prison pay-phone industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outrageous rates charged for prison phone calls breaks family ties] Reference

Rates are as much as 5 times higher than the cost of a pay-phone call outside prison, and the cost of this exploitation is borne by families that are among the least able to afford it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outrageous rates charged for prison phone calls breaks family ties] Reference

He walked out of the smart New Town building like a latterday Lazarus, and found the nearest pay-phone, then had to fumble through all the rubbish in his pockets, stuff that must have meant something once upon a time, until he found the card.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death Is Not The End]

Six years along, and there is little evidence that the intelligence apparatus of the nation is much better than it was on Sept. 12, 2001, when pay-phone messages picked up two days earlier that said "The match begins tomorrow" and "Tomorrow is zero hour" were finally translated.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Forgetting] Reference

For example, in Florida, the Public Utilities Staff determined that one pay-phone company and the correctional facility with which it had contracted deliberately tampered with the equipment so that practically any noise on the line or in the background would result in termination of the call.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outrageous rates charged for prison phone calls breaks family ties] Reference

Nairobi - Charity Karemi operates a pay-phone booth and sells mobile phone scratch cards in.    From Wordnik.com.  [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference

He stood at the pay-phone that morning as Hogan rang his father back home in Limerick with the good news.    From Wordnik.com.  [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Recently I ran across a cartoon where Calvin wakes up, climbs out his window and goes to a pay-phone down the street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madison.com - top] Reference

The online-only info also applies to "transaction-based services," such as a pay-phone call that goes over AT&T's network.    From Wordnik.com.  [latimes.com - News] Reference

It's the story of two Aboriginal teenagers living on a central Australian settlement where nobody answers the one pay-phone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

Every week when Goins called from the base pay-phone, her 4-year-old daughter Annaka would ask "Are you coming home tomorrow?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fort Mill Times | FortMillTime.com - HOMEPAGE] Reference

And pay-phone lines are always the first to be re-established after an emergency so they would be a reliable way of communicating after an earthquake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Titan RSS] Reference

A tidy little couple peered out of the front picture window of the beige ranch house, where they'd been waiting since the last pay-phone call from on the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [thing-a-day 2010] Reference

He writes odes to anguished pay-phone calls, to boys who would drive through blizzards to see a girl, to couples who need to sit together on airplane flights even though the computer thinks otherwise.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The suspect, Kanta Prasad, who is of Gorakhpur area of Uttar Pradesh and is at present living at Najafgarh area, was caught from a PCO (pay-phone) booth in the Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital around 4 p.m.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

The girls needs to use the pay-phone to half-lie to their parents about where they'll be, so we shuffle out to the parking lot, where we sit in the Box listening to the radio feeling wildly cool and full of anticipation, working out our curfews and exchanging plans with the other carloads.    From Wordnik.com.  [By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog] Reference

Hastings asks things like "how in Heaven's name" could a complaint have been filed against him for judicial misconduct before the transcript of his criminal trial had been prepared, yet he does not discuss the curious pattern of communications with Borders and Hastings coincidentally timed rulings, he does not mention the damming Fointainebleau incident, he does not discus various inexplicable pay-phone to pay-phone calls, he does not address the merits of his erratic rulings or any of the evidence in the 179 page post-trial memorandum issued by the House Managers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen Kaus: Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Don't Nominate Alcee Hastings] Reference

When she ordered them to get her a cab, they told her to use the pay-phone across the street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum] Reference

O o o A pay-phone stint, zero luck: no Exley at the Bureau, no Junior to wheedle or threaten.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Jazz]

Just thought he was passing through, but he showed up again and made a phone call over at that pay-phone. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Omnibus]

A "pay-phone" to call the restaurant and they would have "paged" Ed and Stacey, and then Ed and Stacey would have "written" the directions down on a "napkin," but those days are long gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gheorghe: The Blog] Reference

" 3. Land Lines: "Sure, the device had its flaws long distance charges, busy signals, necks strained from cradling receivers, but it was an instrument that lent itself to a slew of rituals that today seem quaint, from the college student pulling the receiver into the hallway for privacy to the frantic lover searching for pay-phone change a la Dustin Hoffman in 'The Graduate.'".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunday Reading] Reference

(Most services bill extra for pay-phone calls.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Technology: Collect Calling] Reference

Johnny saw him using the pay-phone, frequented by pimps and whores and regularly sabotaged by neighborhood vigilantes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum] Reference

The aging pay-phone industry fared worst of all.    From Wordnik.com.  [CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for Breaking News, Weather, and Sports] Reference

1939, expanding Yell County from one pay-phone to a complete telecommunications system offering telephony, cellular, high-speed internet service and digital television.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

Maintain act exclusive via pay-phone.    From Wordnik.com.  [LXer Linux News] Reference