Telephone Cord (Noun)
Meaning
The telephone wire that connects to the handset.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The tangled telephone cord lay on the floor, a frustrating knot that needed to be unraveled.
- As she paced around the room, the long telephone cord trailed behind her, threatening to trip her up.
- The old telephone had a rotary dial and a thick, black telephone cord that seemed to get in the way.
- She tripped over the telephone cord and stumbled, almost dropping the receiver in the process.
- The telephone cord was stretched to its limit, pulled taut as he walked as far as possible from the phone's base.