telephone booth
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
The lander, named Odysseus and a bit bigger than a telephone booth, arrived in the south polar region of the moon at 6:23 p.m.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 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
“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
She’d turned the car around and driven over Mill Run into Amity Harbor, where she used the public telephone booth beside Petersen’s to call her husband and tell him.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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