phone receiver
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The part of a telephone that you hold to your ear and mouth.
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Examples (10)
- She took a deep breath and lifted the phone receiver off its hook.
- He covered the phone receiver and mouthed, 'It's him.'
- He slammed the phone receiver down and burst into tears.
- The phone receiver was dangling from the payphone.
- He put his hand over the phone receiver to whisper something.
- She picked up the phone receiver and put it to her ear.
- She angrily dropped the phone receiver after the heated argument.
- He cradled the phone receiver awkwardly between his shoulder and ear.
- The old telephone had a heavy phone receiver.
- The connection was so bad that she could barely hear through the phone receiver.