cell phone
noun
variants
or less commonly cellphone
plural cell phones also cellphones
: a portable usually cordless telephone for use in a cellular system
Examples of cell phone in a Sentence
Call me on my cell phone.
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At Casa del Migrante, another shelter in Reynosa, a teenage boy approaches me, perhaps 14-years old, holding a cell phone and pointing to the screen.
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Brad Wolf, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
The evidence so far includes roughly 140 gigabytes of data collected from various email addresses, cell phones and laptops, federal prosecutors said at a hearing in Oakland that marked the second appearance by Thao since she was indicted on felony criminal charges last month.
—Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025
All sorts of batteries, including rechargeable batteries, those in cell phones, laptops, vacuums, and smartwatches—but not EV batteries—will be collected at these sites, so valuable resources can be extracted and recycled.
—Simon Hill, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2025
At the camp, recruits can use a cell phone once or twice a week but have no access to the Internet or television or their own food.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
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Brad Wolf, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
The evidence so far includes roughly 140 gigabytes of data collected from various email addresses, cell phones and laptops, federal prosecutors said at a hearing in Oakland that marked the second appearance by Thao since she was indicted on felony criminal charges last month.
—Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025
All sorts of batteries, including rechargeable batteries, those in cell phones, laptops, vacuums, and smartwatches—but not EV batteries—will be collected at these sites, so valuable resources can be extracted and recycled.
—Simon Hill, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2025
At the camp, recruits can use a cell phone once or twice a week but have no access to the Internet or television or their own food.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
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“Cell phone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cell%20phone. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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