vestibule
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Details make all the difference in the small powder room by Rebecca J. Hansen, who explains that both the room and the nearby vestibule are focused on mixing patterns while keeping a consistent color palette.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
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
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
The hook gave way and, unprepared for the sudden yielding, I fell into the vestibule, off balance.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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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
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
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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Jumping up from the seat, she and the Princess swam down the aisle, across the vestibuled platform, through the next car, and then into the diner.
From The Iceberg Express by David Cory
Solid vestibuled trains Daily, heated by steam, illuminated by Pintsch light,
From Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1895 by Henry Chadwick
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
A sudden rush, a soft cry, caused him to pause on the second step of the vestibuled car.
From Lo, Michael! by Grace Livingston Hill
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
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