They see the dreaded "cold call" being replaced with the new industry buzzword, the "cross sell" of services to people who are already customers of another business of a company.

She'd made the dreaded call to Rob Marshall to inform him of the situation.

Why wait for the dreaded call?

All day she will stay by the phone, feeling guilt-ridden and waiting for that dreaded call.

The dreaded call came through from Colonel Jackson's office just before the end of the duty day at 1620-4:20 P.m. Burke had officially been charged with four counts of murder.

Remy glanced at the phone and wished she could wait until she'd drunk her first cup of coffee before making the dreaded call.

And they make much of the fact that to get service for gas systems, homeowners have to make a dreaded call: to a plumber.

You'll get the dreaded 'call failed' error on your phone.

There was the burden of his mother's illness this year, the trepidation of answering the telephone, wondering if this was the dreaded call.

Finally getting the dreaded call that his mother had died in Phoenix.