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vestibule

[ves-tuh-byool] / ˈvɛs təˌbjul /


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That pressure came to a head after immigration officials detained two Target employees inside the vestibule of a suburban store late last week after what appeared to be some verbal sparring in the parking lot.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 13, 2026

The housekeeper, having spied a man sleeping in the vestibule of her building, believes he’s connected to the murder and thus fears for her safety.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 29, 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

It was in the vestibule underneath the stairway, to the left of the front door.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Some schools had security vestibules at their entrances and buzz-in systems to get inside from the outdoors.

From Salon May 27, 2022

That increased functionality starts right at the front door: The pandemic led to a resurgence in the popularity of foyers and vestibules at the main entryway.

From Seattle Times May 3, 2022

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

For much of the last the decade, Charlie Chavez has spent his days like this, by street corners and library vestibules, trying to persuade people to sign whatever political petition he happens to be hawking.

From New York Times Oct. 23, 2010

Despite Pullman’s vestibules ice as fine as dust settled between coaches and filled Burnham’s train with the tang of deep winter.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

From the grotto thus vestibuled, issued hilariously forth the most considerable stream of the glen; which, seemingly overjoyed to find daylight in Willamilla, sprang into the arbor with a cheery, white bound.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

Strange, almost apologetic, it sounded after its years of silence; not at all like the throaty bellow of derision with which the long, vestibuled coast trains thundered through the forsaken village.

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

Over the vestibuled entrance rises the western tower.

From Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 by Elise Whitlock Rose

The first vestibuled trains in which the platforms were enclosed, were built under his supervision under what are known to-day as the “Sessions Patents.”

From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Edward Hungerford




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