cell-phoned
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.27 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
With a cell phone or phones.
verb
simple past and past participle of cell-phone
Example Sentences
- "It [the bomb] had been placed near an elevated railway at South Quay, in London’s Docklands, where the ghosts of cockney porters meet the cell-phoned Yuppies of modern Britain."
- "To see this new Nashville in action, go to the Pancake Pantry, a dressed-down version of the Polo Lounge, any morning and fight past the cell-phoned agents and stars munching and making deals."
- "The men and women who walk here are an unassuming lot, less the cell-phoned swells of the new Bryant Park than nine-to-fivers needing a smoke."
- "These cell-phoned crowds are activist but not militant; today’s “mobe” is no mob."
- "Where are the lyrics that speak to a micro-chipped, dot-commed, cell-phoned, video-crazed, Starbucks-bloated world?"
- "She came running through the crowd dodging the cell-phoned heads, exquisitely attired as usual, probably the result of a recent shopping excursion at Fendi’s."