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n. (phone box English)
Usage examples of "phone boxes".
She had intended to apologise and had been rehearsing a convincing lie about a broken-down train and vandalised phone boxes all the way back from the station.
Twice, from phone boxes, he made dummy calls, checking the pavement.
In the past, he'd always used phone boxes and got me on my mobile.
When it came, he went to one of the inmates' phone boxes and used his card to ring Sol-lazo, who was just about to leave for Long Island when his secretary offered him the cail.
Spammy took off on foot across the road and up a lane between two buildings as Bob managed to coax enough enthusiasm from the Hillman to pull it away from the shattered phone boxes and head on up the street.
They are taking away all the nice things there because they are impractical, as if that were reason enough-the red phone boxes, the pound note, those open London buses that you can leap on and off.
The harman has told Williams that she always uses one of the two phone boxes in the corridor opposite the reception desk.
It seems like I've spent the whole of the last few weeks with someone's hand on my arm: I can't speak to Laura because she lives with somebody else and she calls from phone boxes and she pretends she doesn't, and I can't speak to Liz because she knows about the money and the abortion and me seeing someone else, and I can't speak to Barry and Dick because they're Barry and Dick, and I can't speak to my friends because I don't speak to my friends, and I can't speak now because Laura's father has died, and I just have to take it because otherwise I'm a bad guy, with the emphasis on guy, self-centered, blind, and stupid.
Damn it, there were no phone boxes on this stretch of road, no chance of getting a message to the school.