How to Use telephone booth in a Sentence

telephone booth

noun
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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Imagine a rectangle box/cabinet, sort of like a telephone booth.
    — refinery29.com, 13 July 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The elevator doubles as a telephone booth and operates via a simple button.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 16 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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