telephone box

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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

Instead of an image, he painted the words “Until The World Stops Going Round,” a line from the Leeds United club anthem, on a telephone box.

From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2020

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

A day after Lawrence’s death, a letter listing the names of the people who turned out to be the top suspects in the case was left in a telephone box near the bus stop.

From The Guardian • May 30, 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