vestibule
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Federal officials detained two Target workers in the vestibule of a store and frequently gathered in store parking lots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
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
Firefighters responded to a call Friday morning and found a fire between the vestibule, the elevator and the entrance door of Sanders’ third-floor office in Burlington.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
The vestibule had clean, white walls; the table and benches were of dark wood; and the priest was dressed in a white cassock—it was all neat, plain, simple.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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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
People lie under the seats in sleeper cars and crouch in the hallways or in the vestibules between train cars.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2020
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
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Each and every word a seventeen-jointed vestibuled railroad train.
From Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain
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
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
Fortunately the cars were vestibuled, so the platforms offered no impediment.
From His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts by David Dwight Wells
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
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