phoning in English

verb

1

call someone on the telephone.

She phoned me up and we pondered it for a few minutes, before realising the PC in question didn't have any speakers.

synonyms: telephone, call, give someone a call, call up, give someone a buzz, get someone on the horn/blower

verb

• telephone, call, give someone a call, call up, give someone a buzz, get someone on the horn/blower
• ring, call, telephone, call up

Use "phoning" in a sentence

1. Driving and Phoning—A Risky Combination

2. I'll try phoning him at the club.

3. You came home at 10 at night without warning or phoning us.

4. 13 Will you remind me of phoning Mr. Hood at noon?

5. Why don't you try phoning them one more time, for good measure?

6. After a few days of phoning Stephanie, he knew her number by heart.

7. Thank you for phoning when I was ill - it was very thoughtful of you.

8. 'I hope you didn't mind my phoning you.' 'Good gracious, no, of course not.'

9. Its intelligent control system mainly consists of monitoring and positioning, remote sensing andand inter - phoning subsystems.

10. Nonetheless, she had spent about £100 phoning the quiz show more than 50 times to secure a place.

11. 10 If a telephone number is obtained but not an address, then make a return visit by phoning the individual.

12. This of course embarrassed anyone who didn't send flowers into frantic florist phoning and the whole thing started over again.

13. Meanwhile, the operating system and one or two other basic pieces of software are phoning home, and lockdown technologies are policing your computing.

14. You can send an experience as a gift or make a direct booking, either online or by phoning to speak to one of our Adrenaline consultants

15. Nota: "On Behalf of, on sb/sth's Behalf" is currently much more common than "in Behalf of, in sb/sth's Behalf." I'm phoning on Behalf of my daughter, who has lost her voice