phone booth

noun

US
: a very small room or enclosed structure with a public telephone in it

Examples of phone booth in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In another house, an old British phone booth has been engineered so that when the right code is entered on the keypad, the glass windows turn opaque, and the back wall opens to reveal a slide leading to a secure basement complex that includes a flight simulator and a shark tank. Simon Usborne, CNN, 7 Aug. 2024 Larry had managed to walk to a phone booth located conveniently nearby and called the office. Mandi Bierly, TVLine, 4 Aug. 2024 The phone booth in the Facebook post features the logo for British Telecom, a U.K. communications company that has been working to shed its inventory of phone booths as payphone use has declined. Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024 The first wind phone was created by Itaru Sasaki in 2010 who placed a phone booth in his garden as a space to talk to and grieve his cousin who died of cancer. Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 15 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for phone booth 

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“Phone booth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phone%20booth. Accessed 16 Sep. 2024.

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