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Examples of telephone booth in a Sentence
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These living, breathing telephone booths (people) are everywhere.
—Tiffany Shlain, WIRED, 1 Oct. 2019
The family member who reported the illnesses walked about a half-mile to a telephone booth to call 911, as the family is Amish and does not have a telephone, Fantom said Saturday.
—Jordan D. Brown, CNN, 12 Oct. 2024
In 1934, carpenters’ union leader J.M. Stubblefield was inside a Carpenters’ Hall telephone booth when he was shot dead.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 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. Eastern time on Thursday.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1888, in the meaning defined above
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“Telephone booth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telephone%20booth. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
Kids Definition
telephone booth
noun
: an enclosure within which one may stand or sit while making a telephone call
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