How to Use phone booth in a Sentence

phone booth

noun
  • Dale Pike went in there … goes into the phone booth and makes a call.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • There’s an old phone booth covered in stickers at the top of the stairs, just outside the entrance.
    James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • When not in use, the elevator doubles as a phone booth, adding to the playful decor of the space.
    Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2023
  • The city installed banners with a feather motif at the phone booth in 2019.
    Cathy Free, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2024
  • On the way there, Tyler allegedly forced her into a phone booth, kissed her and groped her.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Dozens of kids stand in line, waiting for their turn to get a selfie in a real live phone booth.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
  • In contrast to the dark-tunnel mood of the old car, the new interior is as bright and airy as a phone booth.
    Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 22 Feb. 2023
  • There's absolutely no record of a call that was made from that phone booth on that day at that time.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • My mother, Philip, and I: three bodies stuck inside the bright-yellow cage of a phone booth.
    Sara Freeman, The Atlantic, 27 June 2023
  • The girls climbed in the back seat and Parsons continued driving west, searching for a place with a phone booth.
    Marisa Kwiatkowski, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
  • Clark Kent still had to go into a phone booth to change into Superman.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2023
  • To address that, the show could implement a phone booth in which contestants could call home.
    TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The 17-year-old says she had been introduced to members of Aerosmith by a friend when Tyler, then 27, forced her into a phone booth as the group walked down the street.
    Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Tyler then allegedly grabbed Bellino by the hand and forced her into a nearby phone booth.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 2 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Inside the store, there is still an old phone booth that was once a sanctuary for the Mexican immigrants who would pay a few dimes to call home in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
    Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2023
  • There are lots of little photo spots, including a pink English-style phone booth.
    Dorothy Elder, Orange County Register, 20 May 2024
  • Another item preserved for history is an old phone booth that stood in the complex.
    CBS News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The mom of two gave a glimpse of their time at the interactive art experience by including a snap of Rocky inside a phone booth.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 31 May 2024
  • Who knows, though—in 10 years, Meta's amazing AR glasses may make fishing a smartphone out of your pocket dozens of times a day seem as quaint as using a phone booth.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2023
  • During the party, guests left the couple messages via an audio guest book inside of a replica of a red London phone booth, custom built by Dragonfly Designs.
    Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 26 May 2024
  • Tyler allegedly became irritated by Bellino’s comment, then grabbed her and forced her into a phone booth, the complaint said.
    Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • In the lawsuit filed in November, Bellino alleges Tyler groped and forcibly kissed her inside a phone booth after meeting her during a summer modeling trip.
    Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Detroit rode one of the greatest defenses in league history to a championship at a time when teams weren’t shooting many threes and offenses were operating in a phone booth, so to speak.
    Shane Young, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
  • So choice looks like private workspaces, phone booth cubicles, private, quiet libraries, small three to four person conference rooms.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Elsewhere in the city, an anonymous, frightened young woman frantically calls Emergency Services from a dark phone booth.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Similar to a phone booth, each clear enclosure includes a chair, a desk and a computer screen with headphones and microphone, where library patrons can walk in, close the door and listen and speak one of the 110 languages offered.
    Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
  • In the next scene, Rake limps to a phone booth for visitation with his ex-wife, Mia, who tells Rake that her sister and their children have been resettled in America under witness protection.
    Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 16 June 2023
  • Wind phones originated in Japan — the brainchild of architect Itaru Sasaki, who purchased an old phone booth and set it up in his garden to carry on conversations with his late cousin who died of cancer.
    Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2023

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