How to Use telephone booth in a Sentence

telephone booth

noun

• His bathroom was the size of a telephone booth.
  — Stephen King, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
• Why is there now a bank of three old-timey telephone booths with men inside making calls?
  — Michael Pollan, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
• Rumford went outside to a telephone booth and with a call confirmed that the hotel had a room for him.
  — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2019
• Smart phones have replaced cameras, radios, paper maps, and long road walks to telephone booths.
  — Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2026
• America was looking for a hero, and women stepped into the telephone booth and put on our capes.
  — Brianna Wu, Marie Claire, 9 Oct. 2018
• The pod comes in three sizes, from a telephone booth for one person to a two-person hub to a cube that’s spacious enough for six people.
  — Ann Lien, House Beautiful, 23 May 2019
• Imagine a rectangle box/cabinet, sort of like a telephone booth.
  — refinery29.com, 13 July 2018
• The dog went on, jauntily carrying his baguette, passing a grapefruit tree that shaded a telephone booth.
  — Peter Heller, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2024
• Here, the Jazz have three players in a telephone booth up at the top, but Georges Niang splits out at the last moment.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
• The Athena spacecraft, a six-legged lander roughly the size of a telephone booth, will take about a week to reach its destination.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 26 Feb. 2025
• The new design features street-facing windows and two London telephone booths framing the entrance.
  — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 11 Nov. 2025
• The elevator doubles as a telephone booth and operates via a simple button.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 16 July 2023
• These living, breathing telephone booths (people) are everywhere.
  — Tiffany Shlain, WIRED, 1 Oct. 2019
• In nearby Altadena, another wind phone sits in a wooden framed telephone booth with vertical glass windows at the end of a brick walkway.
  — Staff Photographer, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
• She’s snapped photos sporting the gown in London telephone booths and dining in a three-star Michelin restaurant in Burgundy.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2023
• The blurring of the line was visible on thousands of bus stops, billboards and telephone booths where the government plastered posters warning of the dangers of immigrants.
  — Marc Santora and Helene Bienvenu, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
• How exactly have rockin' time travelers to skipped to the past and back using a telephone booth and circuits adjusted to the totally tubular digital age?
  — Leah Marilla Thomas, refinery29.com, 28 Aug. 2020
• The music video, premiering on Teen Vogue, features Luna showing off her dance moves in a telephone booth and seeing double of herself in a dark room.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Teen Vogue, 11 Oct. 2018
• These were the dark days of telephone booths (and long distance charges), rabbit-ear TV antennas wrapped with tinfoil to enhance reception, and cameras with flashcubes perched on top.
  — Southern Living, 2 July 2018
• On the bottom was a white tier featuring Union Jack bunting and was topped with a miniature version of a telephone booth and a recreation of the traditional British dish bangers and mash.
  — Robyn Merrett, PEOPLE.com, 2 Mar. 2022
• Veteran apartment gropers know enough to commandeer every working telephone booth in the area using friends who listen to dial tones and weather reports for an hour before the newspapers arrive.
  — Nicholas Pileggi, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2025
• More realistically, a rapidly advancing and globalized division of labor among hands, machines, and minds led to the disappearance of telephone booths.
  — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
• Beyond his production talents, the 45 King became known for his unique studio set-up, which included a turnstile people had to walk through and a glass telephone booth that was turned into a microphone booth.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
• The displays in the massive yellow barn include life-sized statues of comic book heroes and Disney princesses, an animatronic band and an authentic British telephone booth.
  — Noah Mitchell, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2024
• Kemper has been in custody since April 23, 1973, when Pueblo police arrested him after his telephone booth confession.
  — Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• Britain’s largest church was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott—the inventor of the emblematic red telephone booth—in the early 20th century.
  — Paul Jebara, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Aug. 2026
• The hardware itself is also cheaper and simpler than a typical planetary science mission—Nova-C is a slender five-footed hexagon about the size of a British telephone booth.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 28 July 2022
• On a visit to London in February, the singer took some pics in front of the iconic red telephone booths wearing a cherry red Y2K tank top with 'loyal' written across the chest in a cursive font.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 6 Apr. 2023
• Later, at my request, Frank created a telephone booth on the Pont du Garigliano in Paris, the number of which I was meant to dial regularly in the hope that someone would answer.
  — Elisa Wouk Almino editor, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
• That depth of familiarity is essential to an enterprise that is quickly following telephone booths and bipartisan agreements to extinction in the United States.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023