to telephone a radio or television programme with a question or comment
to telephone the place where you work in order to give a message
A phone-in programme was in progress, and the irritation he immediately felt at the banalities being exchanged kept his adrenaline flowing.
Another reporter phoned in later with the story.
It wasn't the most difficult thing in the world to pick up the phone in New York.
Kevin’s just phoned in sick, so he won’t be at the meeting.
The ski patroller was standing with the phone in her hand, looking at Huckmeyer who had his head down, defeated.
To his left, a woman was seated at a writing desk, speaking on the phone in thoughtful, grave tones.
You see, what I was doing was quite different from what that sad woman on the phone-in was doing.
button on the radio, irritated by the inane phone-in that had just started.
phones in
phoning in
phoned in
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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