Examples of “answerphone” in a Sentence

noun A telephone device that automatically records messages from callers.

• It started with a message in my office on that fiendish modern invention, second in its monstrousness only to the television, the answerphone. — Theodore Dalrymple, If Symptoms Persist (2012)
• Leave a message on the answerphone and I'll call you back.
• I keep trying to call her, but all I get is the answerphone.