telephone box
Example Sentences
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“The Commonwealth has shown a remarkable ability to reinvent itself and contrive solutions at times of crisis, almost as if it’s jumping into a telephone box and coming out under different guise,” she said.
From Seattle Times • May 31, 2022
With this, she pushes a button on her spacecraft time machine, the TARDIS, disguised as a police telephone box, which responds by seeming to malfunction.
From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2017
The enormous red-brick power station was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect behind the familiar British red telephone box and London’s Tate Modern museum.
From Washington Times • Oct. 2, 2017
For a man who spends half the working week in a voice booth "the size of a telephone box", it is perhaps no surprise walking and nature are his biggest loves.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2017
They turned a corner, passing a telephone box and a bus shelter.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
