ex-directory

How To Use ex-directory In A Sentence

• He had a new telephone installed, with an s ro ex-directory number, billed to Herb's home address in St John's Wood. Final Resting Place of The Pen
• an ex-directory number
• The only answer they receive from me is the question, ‘Where did you get this ex-directory number?’
• I'm ex-directory so I don't know how these people got hold of my address.
• You can't get any station as they are all ex-directory but I was put through to an Arriva number with no answer.
• No phone number is listed and if there is one, it is ex-directory.
• Hopefully, he looked first for Rose Hilaire in the telephone book; no such name, so she must be ex-directory.
• Looking at these methods, it seems likely that many, but not all, ex-directory numbers could have been obtained by blagging . The readers' editor on… the Observer and the private investigator
• He said they had told him his mobile phone number, ex-directory landline number and address had been found in records made by Mulcaire that were recovered from the investigator's office in south London. Families of 7/7 victims 'were targets of phone hacking'
• I tried telephone enquiries, to be told that the number was ex-directory.