1. Everybody famous gets crank calls and letters.

2. I was getting a lot of crank calls, so I started unplugging my phone at night.

3. Anyone who dares defend this breakthrough speaks in hushed tones, fearing crank calls and canceled grants.

4. Jasmine hung up the phone right away when she realized that it was a crank call.

5. At 34, the officer had spent 13 years on the force, and he had gone through incidents like this a dozen times—a crank call, a sick joke from a drunk.