vestibule
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Details make all the difference in the small powder room by Rebecca J. Hansen, who explains that both the room and the nearby vestibule are focused on mixing patterns while keeping a consistent color palette.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
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
I left the room and went and stood in the vestibule of the office of the Good Night, Sleep Tight.
From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo
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Then White went to her old neighborhood in Southeast, sleeping in building vestibules.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2022
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
Back then, the trains on all three railroads were hauling record loads, and passengers routinely stood shoulder to shoulder in the aisles and vestibules of every car.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2021
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
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Of course, any one may ride in a vestibuled train in our country by simply paying a few dollars, but in Europe it takes a king of strong will power to obtain such luxury.
From Harper's Round Table, July 23, 1895 by Various
The fast vestibuled train, forty minutes late, swung northward at a speed that kept the car in a quiver.
From A Speckled Bird by Augusta J. Evans Wilson
To our English cousins these ships were at first as much of a curiosity as our vestibuled trains were a few years since.
From American Merchant Ships and Sailors by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot
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
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
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