telephone booth
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of telephone booth
An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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I was standing in a containment cage, a contraption smaller than a telephone booth made of steel and mesh wire.
From Slate • Oct. 20, 2024
If qubits get close enough together, Nadkishore explained, they can influence the behavior of their neighbors, almost like a crowd of people trying to squeeze themselves into a telephone booth.
From Science Daily • Jan. 24, 2024
He towed in dilapidated cars and installed an old telephone booth.
From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2020
“There was a telephone booth right here, a glass one,” she said, pointing to a 15-foot, metal pole in the corner of the parking lot.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2018
He would sit with me at a white-topped table in the Muslim restaurant and answer guardedly any questions I asked between constant interruptions by calls from the New York press in the telephone booth.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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