telephone box
Example Sentences
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With this, she pushes a button on her spacecraft time machine, the TARDIS, disguised as a police telephone box, which responds by seeming to malfunction.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2017
The enormous red-brick power station was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect behind the familiar British red telephone box and London’s Tate Modern museum.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 2, 2017
The popular sci-fi series features a Time Lord, known only as The Doctor, who travels through time and space in the Tardis, which resembles a 1960s police telephone box.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2017
One member of his staff said: “If so few people want to come that we could hold it in a telephone box, fine, we’ll hold it in a telephone box.”
From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2015
They turned a corner, passing a telephone box and a bus shelter.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
