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Definition of kiosk:

  • (noun) small area set off by walls for special use | a similar unattended stand for the automatic dispensing of tickets, etc.

Sentence Examples:

There are several gardens fitted up purposely for these picnics, with kiosks, fountains and pleasant seats under the trees.

Several small kiosks at the corners and sides of the terrace give to the whole a somewhat bizarre though tasty appearance.

It was owing to this fortunate circumstance that we were allowed to enter the sanctuary, which consisted of a small marble kiosk standing in the center of the hall.

His Highness has erected a little kiosk, in which he can sit sheltered from the sun while the sport goes on.

The garden sent me a fragrance of roses; the moon sailed higher and picked out the little kiosks set along the wall.

Beside a little kiosk, on the space exactly in front of the side street, lay a man on his face.

Then I heard the wood of the kiosk crack, ever so slightly, like an opening door, and panic flooded me as I had never known it do during all my time at the Front.

I leaned back against the wall and looked at the pool of blood near the kiosk where the man had been.

The imperial kiosk is so simple in its appearance, that if we had not climbed the hill on which it stands for the sake of the view, it would not have been worth the trouble of the walk.

Their goods were spread about the ground on blankets, or on top of carts, or set on and around the kiosks in the city square.

The young people leaned over his demonstration curiously and all eyes in the kiosk were intent on the matches.

If there was no poison in the flask, the poison must have been poured directly into the glasses by a person who was in the kiosk!

And that kiosk was so perfectly isolated that it was impossible for any other persons than the four who were there to pour poison upon the table.

The sacred stones were fenced about, and our visitors had to pay for admission at a little kiosk by the gate.

Only as to the method of destroying the kiosks did the Sultan venture to make a suggestion.

I remember one tender and amiable official who endeavored to convince me that the kiosk and other similar buildings were under his charge, and that he was responsible for them.

I rigged up an addition to the kiosk, but it had to be of a portable character, so that it could be taken down every evening.

We cleared up the site and formed a granite basin for the water, sheltered by a little kiosk with seats where visitors could sit as they drank.

The kiosk was raised two steps from the ground; the interior was painted with all the most splendid colors.

At the kiosk a group of workers and several peering little brains leaped away in terror to let us pass.

The professor left me at the door of the garden through which I had to pass to reach the little kiosk.

The kiosk was a wooden building, narrow and tall, so that the rooms within were high, and the second story was twenty feet above the ground.

None of them had been to see me before, except Paul, and they at once launched into extravagant praises of the view and of the kiosk.

There was no better place to wait and watch for the opportunity I wanted, than in the mock-Moorish kiosk at the end of the lower garden.

In the distance and just stepped out of a newspaper kiosk a woman was standing, shading her eyes and looking towards him.

As she went in a great figure came from behind the newspaper kiosk outside the gates and followed Mary up the road.

The afternoon of our arrival we drove to a pretty lake, but a sudden rain prevented a sail to the island in an exceedingly quaint little kiosk, which rests on two long boats.

He wandered into a sort of kiosk, where the view was fine, and she darted in after him, and straight into his arms.

They used to pass here two or three times a week last summer, and sometimes they'd stop at the kiosk and the girl would buy him an orange or some sweets.

They left a supply of little presents, however, at the kiosk, so that something could be given to Eric every time he passed.

In the outdoor market he watched someone seated on a small couch at a kiosk under a huge umbrella, get a tattoo.

The visitors seated themselves in a broad veranda, overlooking a garden filled with little tables, in the center of which was a kiosk for the music.

She entered the kiosk, and returned in a few moments with the cap, which, in obedience to her directions, he once more drew on his head and over his countenance.

No one dared to face his wrath, but shots were fired at the kiosk from all sides, and four of his guards fell dead beside him.

Then, for the first time, I noticed a girl sitting in a chair just outside the kiosk, and showing a graceful young figure as she partly turned to look after the departing mother and her child.

The blaze of sunshine is round her kiosk, but she sits in the softened shadow so dear to the painter's eye.

There also are the palaces, kiosks, and gardens, which were occupied by the Sultans and their families until the present Sultan changed his residence to another part of the city.

"Do so; seat yourself on the marble stool standing at the entrance of the kiosk, and tell me."

With a little catch of the breath, Edward suddenly pulled up short and slipped back into the shadow of a newspaper kiosk.

The two men leapt from the doors on either side and rushed to the pavement of the square, a few yards from the kiosk.

They listened in a critical temper, made remarks on what they heard, and returned to the kiosk.

We stopped at one of the white kiosks, from the interior of which the hydraulic lifts went down to the lower part of the City.

In the morning the plazas glittered in a complete revelation of every hard carving and leaf and painted kiosk, but later the detail merged in airy diagonal structures of shade.

She gave him a little time, and then, walking through the gardens, bought a visitors' list at the kiosk in front of the Rooms.

The garden was divided by canals of water, and the kiosk was surrounded with ponds and reservoirs.

He gazed on the beauty of the kiosk, and the vases of gold and silver, while the youths and maidens kept him in converse.

These houses are called kiosks, and they take the place of the newspaper stands in our country.

As far as possible, the French like to make their useful things ornamental, and these kiosks add very much to the appearance of the streets.

It was twenty minutes before he brought me a copy, most of the kiosks being already sold out.

They followed Lupin at a safe distance, taking care to conceal themselves as well as possible amongst the moving throng and behind the newspaper kiosks.

The shock was so great and so unexpected, that, proof as he had always considered himself against emotion, he was obliged to lean against the newspaper kiosk for support.

"Come now, my children," said the Fairy Queen, "and let us be seated at yonder temple or kiosk, and have some more cakes and tea."

Soon a thousand electric lights, that were carried in rows around the plaza and over the kiosks of the bands, sparkled out in the darkness.

Here, too, on the banks of the creek, boiling up in basins of their own secretion, and hidden under rustic kiosks of a later date, are the springs themselves.

Every place of business, of course, has one, but also every private house, every farm, and even the little kiosks on the street can boast of a connection.

Within this there were gardens, fountains, kiosks, and many beautiful, fanciful structures, all of which doubtless cost as much as the more necessary parts of the edifice.

I think if the police would give us every facility for introducing kiosks it would be a great improvement upon the present system.

They embraced and kissed each other, and the sister led the brother up into the kiosk, and had his horse taken to a stable.

When they were in the kiosk, the sister asked her brother how he came there, and he told her all his adventures.

When they had embraced and kissed each other, the sister led her brother to the kiosk and sent his horse to the stables.

After some time the youngest brother, who had been left in the kiosk, received the news that his two brothers and the shepherd were to marry the three maidens.

He was mounted on the white horse, and he struck his second brother as he had done the eldest, so that he also fell down, and then he returned again to the kiosk.

Further down the grounds were a few people sitting round the kiosk, drinking coffee and reading the papers.

Such records are erratic, at best, and present indications are that the kiosks will eventually be abolished.

The Master walks rapidly; he guides us toward a high kiosk, where the view, he says, is superb.

Numerous symmetrical kiosks flank the pavilion on this side and that with curved roofs similar to those of the pavilion, ornamented with small bells and monsters.

Then Aladdin arose and went to the kiosk, and found that the Slave had spoken truly; the niche was finished.

The tunnel comes out, I suppose, in that high-fenced enclosure behind the house, the enclosure with the vines all over it and the queer little old coral kiosk in the center, with the rusty iron door.

There were many guests strolling along the shaded walks or lunching in the little kiosks which from the crest of a terrace looked out over the blue bay.

Upon an island in the center of the pond stood a kiosk, approached from the left end of the pond over a narrow high-arched bridge of bamboo.

I never fail to leave my kiosk at this hour to see once more these effects, unique in all the world.

The paper factory having fallen into ruins, Sultan Selim built a kiosk in its place, in imitation of the palace of Versailles.

On its banks stands the kiosk, one side of which is supported by pillars rising out of the water.

The kiosk is shut in with walls, the entrance entirely closed up, and no human being is ever seen to enter or depart from it.

He built a small country house at one extremity, and a very handsome kiosk in the center of it, containing a large basin of water.

For the barest instant, when I crossed the narrow strip of pavement directly in front of the kiosk, fear tugged at my nerves and I felt myself growing tense.

It had been his intention to do so when he left the comic book kiosk, and it continued to be his intention when he sat on the seat in the bus.

What associations are connected with the trees of those gardens and the walls of those little white kiosks!

From the ceiling of every chamber in every palace, they were suspended from the trees on the hills, the kiosks on the bridges.

The latter immediately entered an elegant kiosk, a few paces distant, and returned, bearing the skin of a tiger, which she placed at the foot of the tree.

He changed positions and managed, by means of energy and all kinds of dirty tricks, after a year and a few months, to hold a position of trust as an independent manager of a newspaper kiosk.

Then the colonel, desirous of preventing any unpleasant comments, went up to the kiosk where Madame de Combelot was still manufacturing her little bouquets.

She had just disposed of her last rose, and yet customers were still thronging round her kiosk.

The two buildings toward which he went were exactly alike, of a hybrid kiosk sort of appearance, fantastic and ridiculous, yet vaguely pleasing.

At one end of the garden stood a summer house or kiosk; in front of this was a pond covered with broad leaves and blue flowers of the lotus, through which water fowl sported.

In the noon hour the working men and their families, who in winter had sought the sunny corners for their out-of-door feasts, hunted for the shadow of tree or kiosk.

It is a pretty place, and as the day was growing hot, we particularly enjoyed a marble kiosk, with fountains tossing their delicious waters into the air.

There are three large pavilions and others smaller for the display of agricultural machinery and products, and an immense kiosk for the products of the dairy.

A pavilion is erected, from which the Sovereign looks on, and kiosks are all round it for other spectators.

That night, some of those who saw him at his stand by the subway kiosk thought he looked tired; but he was as gay as ever, and as cheerful.

Moments later the tube-cage jarred again, the door slid open, and he climbed out on a small lighted kiosk in the center of a well of darkness.

The students were wild with rage, and all that night and all next day they tore up and down the streets, pulling up trees, knocking over kiosks, breaking windows.

"True; but it was on my return to the kiosk that I found the cup which no doubt you had poured out for me in my absence."

The kiosk was gone; so was the ravine and the little cascade which had fallen from a height above our heads, and the little bridge over the ravine was, of course, gone too.

If the walls of this building were low it would correspond in appearance with our recollection of the kiosk.

The man sitting close to the kiosk (who had on a cloak and a large shady hat) turned his head and looked at us.

Below was a portion of the garden through which the walk ran, with a graceful curve, to the red kiosk by the front gate.

The two little kiosks or summer houses that you see, you will find, by turning back to the other picture, mark the extremities of the terrace.

Upon it were seats, and here and there little kiosks, but they swept by too swiftly for him to see what might be therein.

On the summit of this eminence there is a kiosk belonging to the archbishop, who readily granted the use of it to the artist for sheltering his pictures, brushes, colors, etc.