vestibule
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Students frantically flee between the desks and down the stairs; the Bridegroom’s parents argue in a vestibule; the Waitress and Markéta, on different levels, recall that last morning as though in a dream.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 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
The vestibule smells of Brian’s ammonia-soaked diapers, which are in a pail waiting to be collected by the diaper company.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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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
Francie polished the brass bell plates in the three vestibules and cleaned each banister spoke with an oiled cloth.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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The walls and ceiling were absolutely tight, the windows and vestibuled door screened and all precautions taken to prevent the entrance of insects.
From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous
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
Limited express!" he said, "all parlor cars, vestibuled, and two dollars extra for a seat; fast time, and only stop at the big stations.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
How gracefully, easily, she lifted the huge, vestibuled train from swale to swell.
From Snow on the Headlight A Story of the Great Burlington Strike by Cy Warman
The fast vestibuled train, forty minutes late, swung northward at a speed that kept the car in a quiver.
From A Speckled Bird by Augusta J. Evans Wilson
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