The country was in the throws of a political upheaval that would reshape its future.

She's phoning in sick this morning because her fever spiked overnight.

He phoned in the report before the meeting.

Whenever the nurse is overloaded, she phones in her reports from the ward.

He calls his old friend once in a way to catch up.

The students staged a die-in on the university quad to protest the proposed budget cuts.

When I first met her, I barely noticed her quiet demeanor, but she proved that big things come in small packages by leading the project to success.

After years of silence, she finally admitted she was living with house in Virginia to help others understand the realities of the disease.

Management dismissed the complaints as tempests in tea-kettles and moved on to real problems.

He dismissed their debates as nothing more than storms in teacups, unworthy of real attention.