vestibule
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Inside the bright vestibule, the face of a protective Gorgon glowers at the visitor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
In the vestibule, Katie Rudner folded programs for arriving guests and handed out envelopes for checks and helped with Venmo charges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 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
I open the door and step back into the vestibule.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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Then White went to her old neighborhood in Southeast, sleeping in building vestibules.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2022
Others rise from the open-air vestibules of the suites.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
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
On the street, in vestibules as well as house parties, they are spectacular, moving like taut silk or loose metal.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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Miss Margery was at the moment fresh from "Florida Specials" and the solid-Pullman vestibuled luxuries of eastern winter travel.
From The Price by Francis Lynde
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
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
Limited express!" he said, "all parlor cars, vestibuled, and two dollars extra for a seat; fast time, and only stop at the big stations.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
The walls and ceiling were absolutely tight, the windows and vestibuled door screened and all precautions taken to prevent the entrance of insects.
From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous
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