To do that then was really to be severed from your ties. To make a phone call I had to wait in line at a phone place and it was not easy.

尽管现在不会出现真正与其他任何人完全隔离的情况，那时候这么做确实是把自己与你的所有关系都断绝了，我打一个电话必须在一个电话亭排队，这真的不容易。

youdao

Now, I go outside and don't immediately make a phone call or check my phone.

现在，我外出时不会立即打个电话或确认有没有忘带手机。

youdao

So you have a list of tasks you do on the phone; whenever you have a few minutes and your phone is handy, you can take a look at your “@phone” list and see if there’s a call you could make.

那么你就拥有了一个通过打电话完成的任务清单；只要有那么几分钟电话是空闲的，你就可以看看你的“@phone”清单，检查一下看是不是可以打个电话。

youdao

If you haven't lost somebody and you know somebody who has, you know, give them a hug, make a phone call, and not at the times when you think.

NPR: Marine Receives Posthumous Medal of Honor

The women send a text message or make a phone call or fill in a sheet, marking out how many pieces of which products they need.

FORBES: In Bangladesh Women Are Taking A Shopping Network To The Villages

Ranta "claimed he had signed a blank file folder ... only because he thought it was a form to allow him to make a phone call, " court papers said.

WSJ: Freedom near for man convicted of killing NY rabbi