telephone booth
noun
a more or less soundproof booth containing a public telephone.
telephone booths
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pluralof telephone booth.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The device is one of around a thousand that Community Heartbeat Trust has installed in telephone booths across the U.K. in a movement that started in 2009, Fagan said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
On a normal day, visitors can walk through the former prison, visiting cells and soldiers’ barracks, or listen to testimony from former inmates about being imprisoned and interrogated in telephone booths once used for visitors.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2022
Just a step away from Spain are streets like “Winston Churchill Avenue,” iconic red London telephone booths and restaurants advertising British high tea and fish and chips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2018
The government does offer free telephone booths for refugees, but they are scarcely used due to poor service.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2018
"If we want to win, we can't attack in straight lines. We'll leave leaflets everywhere—in telephone booths, mailboxes, apartment houses—for people to read and to pass on, like a chain letter!"
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
