ex-directory

How To Use ex-directory In A Sentence

• As I discover when I try to get hold of him before our interview, his production company is ex-directory.
• They reveal he was being asked to establish home addresses and to find telephone numbers, some ex-directory. The readers' editor on… the Observer and the private investigator
• `Lucky for you, and for me," said Laura, `that unlike my author cousin, I'm not ex-directory. OUT OF THE ASHES
• Never give your name or number when you answer the phone, especially if you've got an ex-directory number. KICK BACK
• As Mike himself points out, if Mr Horgan has chosen not to go ex-directory, even though he's the director of a number of companies, then he is asking for trouble.
• It was necessary for Herb to have a private telephone, installed with great discretion, and operating on an ex-directory number. Final Resting Place of The Pen
• It's a well-known fact that in Knutsford the Fire-Brigade is ex-directory.
• The telephone number of the pub has also been changed and is now ex-directory.
• Even BT managed to add to our problems by making our telephone number ex-directory.
• Bowen said Californians are very privacy conscious, as borne out by the fact that half the people in the state had ex-directory telephone numbers to shield them from telemarketers, another bane of daily life.