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vestibule

[ves-tuh-byool] / ˈvɛs təˌbjul /


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“There was a guy who was terrorizing the front of Clifton’s because he decided he wanted to live in the vestibule in front, and he didn’t want us to operate there,” Meieran said.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 18, 2026

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

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

He went to the vestibule and swung through the door into the street, feeling that ball of hot tightness growing larger and heavier in his stomach and chest.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

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

We found “Jail” sheathed in a plexiglass-fronted wood frame in one of the vestibules.

From New York Times Mar. 23, 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

Francie polished the brass bell plates in the three vestibules and cleaned each banister spoke with an oiled cloth.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Train Number Three, the "Flying Kestrel," vestibuled, had crossed the yellow Rubicon of the West and was mounting toward the Occident up the gentle acclivities of the Great Plain.

From A Romance in Transit by Francis Lynde

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 James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

The fast vestibuled train, forty minutes late, swung northward at a speed that kept the car in a quiver.

From A Speckled Bird by Augusta J. Evans Wilson

“Here is Stony Junction,” Dorothy remarked, as the trainman let in a gust of wind from the vestibuled door to shout out the name of that station.

From Dorothy Dale in the City by Margaret Penrose

How gracefully, easily, she lifted the huge, vestibuled train from swale to swell.

From Snow on the Headlight A Story of the Great Burlington Strike by Cy Warman




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