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Examples of telephone booth in a Sentence
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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
Odysseus begins its journey The six-legged robotic lander, which Intuitive likens in size to an old-fashioned British telephone booth, is 4.3 meters tall with a hexagonal hull 1.6 meters in diameter.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2024
What’s on board The Odysseus lander is a model called Nova-C, which Intuitive Machines describes as roughly the size of a British telephone booth with legs attached.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 12 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 20 Sep. 2024.
Kids Definition
telephone booth
noun
: an enclosure within which one may stand or sit while making a telephone call
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