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Telephone booth   /tˈɛləfˌoʊn buθ/   Listen
Telephone booth

noun
1.
Booth for using a telephone.  Synonyms: call box, phone booth, telephone box, telephone kiosk.






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"Telephone booth" Quotes from Famous Books



... from a telephone booth, and carefully, with a slow precision, she hung up the receiver. A feeling of despair, a stifling anguish, seized her and she began to cry. Shut into the hot, small place, she broke into rending sobs, her head bent, her hands gripped, rocking back and forth. Small, ...
— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner

... no longer. The game was up. He rushed from his coign of observation, out of the bank building, and dashed into a telephone booth. ...
— Constance Dunlap • Arthur B. Reeve

... and simple one, takes you into the telephone booth. Trouble begins with the third, a long dog-leg hole through the kitchen into the dining-room. This hole is well trapped with table-legs, kitchen utensils, and a moving hazard in the person of Clarence the cat, who is generally wandering about the ...
— A Wodehouse Miscellany - Articles & Stories • P. G. Wodehouse

... Norma said good-bye. She walked away from the telephone booth with her face burning, and her heart beating quickly ...
— The Beloved Woman • Kathleen Norris

... his figure vanished, that Lish Kelly crossed the writing room. He had been sitting in a telephone booth, and leaving the door a crack open had heard every word ...
— The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly • Margaret Burnham


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