How to Use burner phone in a Sentence

burner phone

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• Mackenzie’s direction is never tighter than when he’s focused on message relays, burner phones and the bureaucracy of the post office.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Police back then knew the client was using a burner phone.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
• The burner phone clue Police back then knew the client was using a burner phone.
  — Morgan Canty, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
• Jake’s dropped his burner phone, and Misaki hasn’t been able to reach him all day.
  — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2024
• That night, the burner phone traveled to the area of the woman’s house, according to the document.
  — John Miller, CNN, 21 July 2023
• The text came from a burner phone, cops confirmed, but it was located near Stanivukovic’s business at the time of the text.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2024
• The burner phone was linked to an email account, according to court records.
  — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• One day, Jon called Gold’s housekeeper from a burner phone.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• Your best buy is buying a low-cost smartphone, sometimes called a burner phone.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
• The burner phone should arrive soon, Chitwood his parents.
  — Danielle Paquette, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2023
• Prosecutors alleged that after each of the murders, the suspect got rid of the burner phones.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 15 July 2023
• The police claim the killer, meanwhile, used separate burner phones to contact each victim – and, in doing so, gave them their first clue.
  — Samantha Wanderer, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2023
• Harry believes reporters used burner phone and destroyed records and that there's been a cover up of the hacking scandal.
  — Staff and Wire Reports., USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
• The killer allegedly used four separate burner phones to contact the women.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
• Evidence revealed the killer had used burner phones to contact victims.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 16 July 2023
• In theory, whoever used those burner phones also carried a regular phone that pinged the same towers at the same time.
  — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• Eventually, Hudson learned that a call was made to a burner phone before the chase, confirming his suspicion that Red was tipped off.
  — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
• Suffolk County Police At 1:31 a.m., Waterman's phone was again contacted by the same burner phone as the day before.
  — Morgan Canty, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
• The records allegedly corresponded with cell site locations for burner phones used to arrange meetings with three of the Gilgo Beach victims.
  — Jonathan Dienst, NBC News, 14 July 2023
• During this period, Avey claims in the episode that Knudson used burner phones to impersonate her and have text conversations with her friends and others close to her.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
• There are Russian oligarchs and business titans, strongmen, burner phones, janky bars and SROs, and dubious, shadowy figures with dirty hands.
  — Tracy Clark, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
• Prosecutors said Michel was donating the money on Low’s behalf, and later tried to lean on the straw donors with texts from burner phones to keep them from talking to investigators.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2023
• When the suspect was arrested at his home Thursday, one of the burner phones allegedly linked to the suspicious searches, was recovered, court documents said.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 15 July 2023
• Ashley Benefield's lawyer, Faith Brown, told police at the time that her client had been planning to leave her husband and had an escape plan, including a safe place to stay, a burner phone and a rental car rented under a different name.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 30 July 2024
• Investigators later learned of two burner phones left below a dam near a rural property in Texas County where it was discovered that a hole had been dug and filled back in and then covered with hay.
  — Josh Dulaney, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2024
• But despite buying the burner phone, Jones occasionally still turned on his primary phone.
  — Michelle Miller, CBS News, 6 May 2023
• Among the breaks in the case were calls made on Melissa Barthelemy's burner phone to her family members in the days after her 2009 disappearance, according to a bail application made public Friday.
  — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 14 July 2023
• Among the breaks in the case were calls made on Melissa Barthelemy’s burner phone to her family members in the days after her 2009 disappearance, according to a bail application made public Friday.
  — Jonathan Dienst, NBC News, 14 July 2023
• The crew was reportedly given SIM cards and burner phones without data included, but many of them don’t have anyone’s contact information.
  — Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 16 May 2024
• In those communications, the burner phone connected to cell towers in West Amityville and Massapequa Park, the bail application says.
  — John Miller, CNN, 21 July 2023

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024