: a very small room or enclosed structure with a public telephone in it
Examples of phone box in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebMy 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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