vestibule

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

Syd and I chose the tiny vestibule so he could sleep in the small, dark closet, away from the crowd.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2025

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

He stands, confused, in the empty vestibule, and then a voice calls out from behind the beaded curtain.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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

Back then, the trains on all three railroads were hauling record loads, and passengers routinely stood shoulder to shoulder in the aisles and vestibules of every car.

From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2021

U.S. embassy spokesman Joseph Kruzich told the Economic Times that the embassy had employed measures, including supplementary air filtration and construction of vestibules, to provide clean air in workspaces.

From Reuters ● Nov. 7, 2016

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

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

“Here is Stony Junction,” Dorothy remarked, as the trainman let in a gust of wind from the vestibuled door to shout out the name of that station.

From Dorothy Dale in the City by Margaret Penrose

The following morning the new foreman stood upon the platform of the station as the heavy, vestibuled Imperial Limited ground to a stop, under special orders to take on the great lumberman.

From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

Train Number Three, the "Flying Kestrel," vestibuled, had crossed the yellow Rubicon of the West and was mounting toward the Occident up the gentle acclivities of the Great Plain.

From A Romance in Transit by Francis Lynde

For his apparel would have been more in place in the bare colonist cars of the first section than in the vestibuled, luxurious rear coaches of the second.

From Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe