How to Use telephone booth in a Sentence
telephone booth
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Here, the Jazz have three players in a telephone booth up at the top, but Georges Niang splits out at the last moment.
—Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
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Rumford went outside to a telephone booth and with a call confirmed that the hotel had a room for him.
—Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2019
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The pod comes in three sizes, from a telephone booth for one person to a two-person hub to a cube that’s spacious enough for six people.
—Ann Lien, House Beautiful, 23 May 2019
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America was looking for a hero, and women stepped into the telephone booth and put on our capes.
—Brianna Wu, Marie Claire, 9 Oct. 2018
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Before the song starts, Lil Nas X enters a telephone booth and gets turned into a red-eyed, sparkly-fanged vampire.
—Sara Delgado, Teen Vogue, 6 Feb. 2020
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On the bottom was a white tier featuring Union Jack bunting and was topped with a miniature version of a telephone booth and a recreation of the traditional British dish bangers and mash.
—Robyn Merrett, PEOPLE.com, 2 Mar. 2022
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Imagine a rectangle box/cabinet, sort of like a telephone booth.
—refinery29.com, 13 July 2018
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The music video, premiering on Teen Vogue, features Luna showing off her dance moves in a telephone booth and seeing double of herself in a dark room.
—Ilana Kaplan, Teen Vogue, 11 Oct. 2018
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The blurring of the line was visible on thousands of bus stops, billboards and telephone booths where the government plastered posters warning of the dangers of immigrants.
—Marc Santora and Helene Bienvenu, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
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On a visit to London in February, the singer took some pics in front of the iconic red telephone booths wearing a cherry red Y2K tank top with 'loyal' written across the chest in a cursive font.
—Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 6 Apr. 2023
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These were the dark days of telephone booths (and long distance charges), rabbit-ear TV antennas wrapped with tinfoil to enhance reception, and cameras with flashcubes perched on top.
—Southern Living, 2 July 2018
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How exactly have rockin' time travelers to skipped to the past and back using a telephone booth and circuits adjusted to the totally tubular digital age?
—Leah Marilla Thomas, refinery29.com, 28 Aug. 2020
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The elevator doubles as a telephone booth and operates via a simple button.
—Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 16 July 2023
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The hardware itself is also cheaper and simpler than a typical planetary science mission—Nova-C is a slender five-footed hexagon about the size of a British telephone booth.
—Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 28 July 2022
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On bus stops and telephone booths across Budapest, Mr. Soros has been photoshopped into a photo so as to appear to be embracing opposition candidates.
—Marc Santora, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2018
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On a hot summer morning, Ms. Mariscal sat in a conference room not much larger than a telephone booth with two other executives, hashing out the final agenda for Bar Wayo’s employee orientation.
—Elizabeth G. Dunn, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2019
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There will be other people-pleasing elements, including on onsite wine cellar, a 37-foot long bar outfitted in fine walnut and brass rails, a working British telephone booth and various historic images.
—Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2020
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