phone-answering

An inventive soul, positioned the blue office block where I morph into a phone-answering robot between a river and a dock on a narrow stretch of land.

An Interview with Catherine J. Gardner marshallpayne1 2009

The Oregonian cited unnamed sources saying a woman left a message on a phone-answering machine in the congressman's Portland office in May, complaining of an unwanted sexual encounter which was not described in the Oregonian's story.

Pelosi Seeks Probe of Oregon Congressman Joel Millman 2011

A red light begins to blink on the phone-answering device next to where Bradley sits on the sofa, and Milo gets out of his chair to pick up the phone.

The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010

For instance, professional-looking websites and automated phone-answering systems can speed sales and make a start-up look more impressive to potential customers.

Start-Ups on a Shoestring 2010

With my snazzy, jazzed-up rsum and Jodis glowing recommendation, I looked like someone who had viable skills in the arena of corporate phone-answering.

I'm Perfect, You're Doomed Kyria Abrahams 2009

She came and went at odd hours and disappeared for a day or two at a time on a regular basis (which was fine, she was a grown-up), and this meant that I was the one stuck with phone-answering duty.

we feed on the blood of the living moriarty6 2007

Not one second that you spent in that house of horrors, isolated from the world taught you a thing about red phone-answering, or keeping us out of war, or protecting us from the 'red menace.'

No "Never-been" Presidential Candidate Has "Red Phone" Experience 2008

Anyone who did would probably get a recorded message on a computerized phone-answering machine system, as Henry did at several papers he called at random.

Goodbye to Newspapers? Baker, Russell 2007

There's the other phone-answering guy who definitely thinks I'm gay and simply WON'T look at me.

kevynwight Diary Entry kevynwight 2001

And like a snot, I'd only let them know of my return date and time by phoning in the middle of the day, Lancaster time, when there was a high probability of getting the phone-answering machine (nickname: Cindy), which indeed was the case.

Shampoo Planet Coupland, Douglas 1992