1.   All three phones were kaput.

2.   At last he called the operator and asked whether the phone was out of order.

3.   Every phone I tried was out of order.

4.   In the sixth hotel the phone was pink and its weight felt wrong as I lifted the receiver.

5.   She tried to call Lisa, but the phone was busy.

6.   The antennas are going up, wireless phones are in production, and the hype has begun.

7.   The phone is equipped with a call-back facility.

8.   The phones are for internal communication only.

9.   The phones were dead until Leese flipped the master switch.

10.   With stocks racing ahead and the Dow and Nasdaq in record territory day after day, our office phones are unusually quiet.