telephone booth
Example Sentences
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Wilber grabbed the notebook he carried around with his family’s information and tossed it the man, who headed straight to a telephone booth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
I was standing in a containment cage, a contraption smaller than a telephone booth made of steel and mesh wire.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2024
A UK-style red telephone booth sits on one corner, Norwegian flags festoon posts and staircases and a “Velkommen til Poulsbo!” mural and monstrous Viking invite day-trippers and weekend stays.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
The lander, named Odysseus and a bit bigger than a telephone booth, arrived in the south polar region of the moon at 6:23 p.m.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
He would sit with me at a white-topped table in the Muslim restaurant and answer guardedly any questions I asked between constant interruptions by calls from the New York press in the telephone booth.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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