vestibule
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Students frantically flee between the desks and down the stairs; the Bridegroom’s parents argue in a vestibule; the Waitress and Markéta, on different levels, recall that last morning as though in a dream.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
Soon after, Duverne tried to set fire to an emergency light in an elevator vestibule, Lalaind added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
Taking the photographs in a vestibule at the end of a carriage, Edwards taped a large bag to the opposite window to reduce the glare - though the train conductor was not so happy.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2024
Julia Andreasen, a graduate student at UM, was trapped in her tent for 24 hours after drifting snow buried the vestibule.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 18, 2024
Booth could see the door of the vestibule that led directly into the president’s box.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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Some schools had security vestibules at their entrances and buzz-in systems to get inside from the outdoors.
From Salon ● May 27, 2022
In fact, Ruthroff says, vestibules first became popular architectural features during the Spanish flu pandemic a century ago.
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2022
U.S. embassy spokesman Joseph Kruzich told the Economic Times that the embassy had employed measures, including supplementary air filtration and construction of vestibules, to provide clean air in workspaces.
From Reuters ● Nov. 7, 2016
For much of the last the decade, Charlie Chavez has spent his days like this, by street corners and library vestibules, trying to persuade people to sign whatever political petition he happens to be hawking.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2010
Despite Pullman’s vestibules ice as fine as dust settled between coaches and filled Burnham’s train with the tang of deep winter.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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He was on the vestibuled platform of his car to meet her when his train passed the home city from whose suburbs she had come in.
From The Brown Study by Richmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith)
It was a wearisome task, especially when Wallace accompanied her, for his tastes ran to expensive and vestibuled apartments and fashionable streets.
From Martie, the Unconquered by Norris, Kathleen Thompson
Jumping up from the seat, she and the Princess swam down the aisle, across the vestibuled platform, through the next car, and then into the diner.
From The Iceberg Express by Cory, David
Roger was out on the vestibuled platform before the wheels stopped screeching under the force of the brakes.
From The White Crystals Being an Account of the Adventures of Two Boys by Garis, Howard Roger
Strange, almost apologetic, it sounded after its years of silence; not at all like the throaty bellow of derision with which the long, vestibuled coast trains thundered through the forsaken village.
From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
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