How to Use phone booth in a Sentence

phone booth

noun
  • The sketch and the phone booth thing.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Maria, our guide for the day, glanced at the phone booth.
    — Peter Heller, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Connors was shot to death in a phone booth down the road.
    — Tovia Smith, NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Find your island escape through the bar's phone booth and up the stairs.
    — Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Dale Pike went in there … goes into the phone booth and makes a call.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • That's when two other reporters come sprinting up to the phone booth.
    — Rachel Raposas, People.com, 8 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Are we supposed to know who Irving is calling in that phone booth?
    — Anna Tingley, Variety, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Allen always seems to jump out of a phone booth when Buffalo needs him most.
    — Mike Jones, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Putting a hot dog stand or a phone booth on a landscape which is meant to be alien could attract criticism.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 27 Nov. 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
  • To address that, the show could implement a phone booth in which contestants could call home.
    — TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Inside the phone booth, Dad’s talking loudly.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Grabber hounds Finn through an old phone booth and torments Gwen through her dreams.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Fire lookout towers with human fire spotters are going the way of the phone booth and fax machine.
    — Paul Rogers, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Another item preserved for history is an old phone booth that stood in the complex.
    — CBS News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Sasaki opened the phone booth to his neighbors, who urgently needed a place to express their grief.
    — Taryn Lindhorst, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Tyler then allegedly grabbed Bellino by the hand and forced her into a nearby phone booth.
    — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 2 Nov. 2023
  • But Williams, never one to shy away from a challenge, eagerly ducked into the phone booth.
    — Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2025
  • There are lots of little photo spots, including a pink English-style phone booth.
    — Dorothy Elder, Orange County Register, 20 May 2024
  • The clip opens with Rosé at a phone booth in the middle of the desert, seemingly calling up the others.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2025
  • Brinkley was first discovered at the age of 20 outside a phone booth in Paris.
    — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • And no, Ohtani will not run into the proverbial phone booth and sprint out to the mound to surprise everyone.
    — Mark Osborne, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • The city installed banners with a feather motif at the phone booth in 2019.
    — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Iowa State senior Tamin Lipsey leads this strong defensive team and will pick your pocket in a phone booth.
    — Kirk Bohls, Houston Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2026

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