telephone box


noun
  1. an enclosure from which a paid telephone call can be made: Also called: telephone kiosk, telephone booth

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How to use telephone box in a sentence

  • You get into the cage, which is a steel box about as wide as a telephone box and two or three times as long.

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  • I entered the station, and for some moments stood outside the telephone box numbered 4.

    The Sign of Silence | William Le Queux
  • In this barn-like place was nothing else but a telephone-box and a chair.

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  • Mr. Harbison stared up at her, with the telephone box in his hands.

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  • Inside this was a private office which was simply furnished and had in one corner what appeared to be a telephone box.

    Jack O' Judgment | Edgar Wallace
  • She went into a Tube station telephone box and rang through but received no answer.

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