vestibule
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Inside the bright vestibule, the face of a protective Gorgon glowers at the visitor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 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
Firefighters responded to a call Friday morning and found a fire between the vestibule, the elevator and the entrance door of Sanders’ third-floor office in Burlington.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
We were playing stickball on 122nd Street, and a foul ball went up on the flat roof over the church vestibule.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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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
That increased functionality starts right at the front door: The pandemic led to a resurgence in the popularity of foyers and vestibules at the main entryway.
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
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Fortunately the cars were vestibuled, so the platforms offered no impediment.
From His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts by David Dwight Wells
Solid vestibuled trains Daily, heated by steam, illuminated by Pintsch light,
From Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1895 by Henry Chadwick
The following morning the new foreman stood upon the platform of the station as the heavy, vestibuled Imperial Limited ground to a stop, under special orders to take on the great lumberman.
From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
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 Howard Roger Garis
Limited express!" he said, "all parlor cars, vestibuled, and two dollars extra for a seat; fast time, and only stop at the big stations.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
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