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vestibule

[ves-tuh-byool] / ˈvɛs təˌbjul /


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That pressure came to a head after immigration officials detained two Target employees inside the vestibule of a suburban store late last week after what appeared to be some verbal sparring in the parking lot.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 13, 2026

Taking the photographs in a vestibule at the end of a carriage, Edwards taped a large bag to the opposite window to reduce the glare - though the train conductor was not so happy.

From BBC Sep. 25, 2024

Julia Andreasen, a graduate student at UM, was trapped in her tent for 24 hours after drifting snow buried the vestibule.

From Science Magazine Apr. 18, 2024

Firefighters responded to a call Friday morning and found a fire between the vestibule, the elevator and the entrance door of Sanders’ third-floor office in Burlington.

From Seattle Times Apr. 5, 2024

But when I stepped past the vestibule, I gasped.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

Then White went to her old neighborhood in Southeast, sleeping in building vestibules.

From Washington Post Nov. 14, 2022

Others rise from the open-air vestibules of the suites.

From New York Times Sep. 27, 2022

Some schools had security vestibules at their entrances and buzz-in systems to get inside from the outdoors.

From Salon May 27, 2022

In fact, Ruthroff says, vestibules first became popular architectural features during the Spanish flu pandemic a century ago.

From Seattle Times May 3, 2022

Despite Pullman’s vestibules ice as fine as dust settled between coaches and filled Burnham’s train with the tang of deep winter.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

He was on the vestibuled platform of his car to meet her when his train passed the home city from whose suburbs she had come in.

From The Brown Study by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

It was a wearisome task, especially when Wallace accompanied her, for his tastes ran to expensive and vestibuled apartments and fashionable streets.

From Martie, the Unconquered by Kathleen Thompson Norris

Jumping up from the seat, she and the Princess swam down the aisle, across the vestibuled platform, through the next car, and then into the diner.

From The Iceberg Express by David Cory

Each and every word a seventeen-jointed vestibuled railroad train.

From Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain

Fortunately the cars were vestibuled, so the platforms offered no impediment.

From His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts by David Dwight Wells




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