telephone box
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.
I entered the station, and for some moments stood outside the telephone box numbered 4.
The Sign of Silence | William Le QueuxIn this barn-like place was nothing else but a telephone-box and a chair.
Cupid in Africa | P. C. WrenMr. Harbison stared up at her, with the telephone box in his hands.
When a Man Marries | Mary Roberts RinehartInside 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.
Jack O' Judgment | Edgar Wallace
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