How to Use hotline in a Sentence

hotline

noun
  • Today, the nuclear hotline and back-channels remain open, albeit in different forms.
    Time, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The center will also serve as a workspace for logistics and search-and-rescue teams, as well as house a regional disaster relief hotline.
    NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
  • In the District, call the city’s services hotline at 311, and if a dead animal is on a sidewalk or in an alley, crews will pick it up.
    Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Emergency hotlines remain open to answer questions from residents.
    Kathryn Varn, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
  • In the five years after the reforms took effect, the state’s child abuse hotline was inundated with more than 1 million reports of child maltreatment, state data shows.
    Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Eby said the voter-protection hotline notified the counties where voters reported issues.
    María Méndez, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The hotline has had problems going back as far as 2017, according to USA Today.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Freedom for Immigrants’ national hotline receives an average of 250 calls per week.
    Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The hotline is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
    Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The hotline is sponsored by FreeConferenceCall.com, which launched it back in 2009 as a way to promote its services.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The violation hotline is staffed around the clock 365 days a year.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 19 Nov. 2022
  • The American Red Cross has a hotline available around the clock.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024
  • Calls from fire victims to a mental health hotline shot up this spring.
    Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Please note that the hotline cannot give you your refund status for any year other than the 2022 tax year.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Special garbage bins, a 24/7 hotline, scare cartridges, and a bear jail.
    WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Calling the hotline from a cell phone provides special perks.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The hotline is a first of its kind in California and is offered in more than 200 languages.
    Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 21 May 2024
  • Tips to the hotline can remain anonymous, the commission said.
    Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Those who want to surrender will be able to call the hotline and plan with authorities on where and how to turn themselves in.
    cleveland, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The hotline was overseen by Jennifer Loew, then a Metro employee.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
  • In the United States, there is a government hotline to help those affected.
    Monika Pronczuk, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • According to the park’s wildflower hotline, the first phase of desert blossoms was waning.
    Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 May 2024
  • Almost a quarter of Oregon calls to the mental health crisis hotline have gone unanswered so far this year.
    Meira Gebel, Axios, 12 July 2024
  • That hotline currently only has about a minute wait time, Etheridge said Friday.
    Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
  • The hotline is open during regular business hours and from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. (Eastern time) on Election Day.
    Nick Hollkamp, The Courier-Journal, 17 May 2023
  • Fund Texas Choice — which helps arrange and cover flights, hotel stays, food and child care — has also reopened its hotline.
    Allie Morris, Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Much of those fears dissipated if their peers encouraged them to call crisis hotlines, the study said.
    Journal Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2024
  • As of last June, the hotline received an average of 10 calls per month that were related to citations.
    Claire Rush, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Alarm Phone, a network of activists who run a hotline for migrant boats in distress, told AP that people on the ship were desperate for help.
    Isabelle Butera, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
  • Dispatchers use their skills and training to discern when to transfer calls to the crisis hotline, Butcher said.
    Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023

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