phone box

noun

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

Examples of phone box in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web My clearest memory of the day is this: standing in a phone box outside the hospital, the sticky receiver held to my ear, complaining to my father that I had been lied to, and that a needle was coming my way. Madeleine Watts, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022

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“Phone box.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phone%20box. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.

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