vestibule

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

In the vestibule, Katie Rudner folded programs for arriving guests and handed out envelopes for checks and helped with Venmo charges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2025

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

Deacons and church ladies in white dresses swarm about my family, fanning them, guiding them from the vestibule into the church.

From "Ghost Boys" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

People lie under the seats in sleeper cars and crouch in the hallways or in the vestibules between train cars.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2020

On the street, in vestibules as well as house parties, they are spectacular, moving like taut silk or loose metal.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

“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

A sudden rush, a soft cry, caused him to pause on the second step of the vestibuled car.

From Lo, Michael! by Grace Livingston Hill

He was on the vestibuled platform of his car to meet her when his train passed the home city from whose suburbs she had come in.

From The Brown Study by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

From the grotto thus vestibuled, issued hilariously forth the most considerable stream of the glen; which, seemingly overjoyed to find daylight in Willamilla, sprang into the arbor with a cheery, white bound.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville