telephone box

Example Sentences

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Intuitive Machine's 675kg Odysseus lander is about the size of an old British telephone box.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2024

“The Commonwealth has shown a remarkable ability to reinvent itself and contrive solutions at times of crisis, almost as if it’s jumping into a telephone box and coming out under different guise,” she said.

From Seattle Times • May 31, 2022

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

“Doctor Who” follows a time-traveling alien known as the Doctor, who moves through different dimensions to save the universe in the Tardis, a spaceship disguised as an old-fashioned British police telephone box.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2017

They smile as the telephone box disappears into the floor.

From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling