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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:

Above the door of the little kiosk, with many a soft swish of silken stirrings, hung the beautiful old flag.

What pleased me most of all was, however, the incomparable kiosk, lying in the garden at some distance from the palace.

Ah, how gaily gleamed the kiosks on the boulevards through the gray mist!

Certainly the kiosk did rise high above the garden and was completely detached, no wall being near.

We followed him down the street, and sometimes crossing the mud on pieces of wood, sometimes "putting one's foot in it," we reached a savage-looking timber kiosk, and, mounting a ladder, seated ourselves on the window ledge.

An officer swooped down upon my kiosk and went through my stock.

They emerged through a manhole into a kiosk next to a transit strip.

Not listening to remonstrance, she ran down from the kiosk, and jumping into a boat, began to row toward her son.

I went down it with a swoop, landed in a heap beside the kiosk and ducked into it.

We were soon overpowered by numbers, and driven to seek refuge in a species of kiosk.

The little kiosk on the hill, at the top of a beautiful garden, was very tempting, too, and after a few hours' consideration I hired it for the season, with that fine disregard for consequences which one learns in the East.

"Call at the kiosk next time you pass, and perhaps another parcel will have arrived from fairyland."

Soon after we got there an excellent band commenced playing, not in the kiosk, lest we should be beguiled into dancing.

In the center of the garden, where is now the fountain and its basin, was a circus, half underground and half above, and there were innumerable booths and kiosks for the sale of foolish trifles, all paying tribute to the ground landlord.

French monarchs; and Selim, struck by its magnificence, determined to build a kiosk in imitation of it.

The streets had become deserted, although groups still eddied slowly about the subway kiosks.

A fresh platoon of soldiers tumbled out of a kiosk leading to an underground barracks like ants out of a disturbed nest.

There were three or four people standing vaguely about in the kiosk; but my idle mind fixed itself upon a young French-Canadian mother of low degree, who sat, with her small boy, on the verge of the pavement near the water.

Little hexagonal kiosks at corners below domes, Moorish.

On the day of the visit, the kiosk was swept and garnished.

Just at the crossing of two broad walks, a vine-roofed kiosk gave shelter from the late sunshine, while its bamboo screens were half raised to show the long perspective of garden walk and distant lawn.

For there is no rose without a thorn, nor is this lovely kiosk and garden full of blooming poppies without its plague.

The visitors drinking in the kiosk smiled; they were well accustomed to the man.

There we tarried a while, looking at the gardens, and their summer houses, called kiosks.

If boys were prohibited from selling newspapers altogether on the streets, it would automatically send the public to the kiosk; ... the public get into the habit of getting the newspapers from the boys

When he had reached the kiosk he went from room to room, until at length he found his sister sitting with the dragon sleeping with his head upon her knee, while she passed her fingers through the hair of his head.

They are covered with rare trees, surmounted with kiosks, and those little constructions which we call pagodas.

Before the doors of this palace close behind me forever I want to take a last walk into all the windings of the terraces, into all the kiosks, so dainty and so charming, in which the Empress no doubt concealed her reveries and her amours.

After our brief soldiers' breakfast, served on rare china in the long gallery, I leave the Palace of the North to install myself in the kiosk on the opposite shore, which I selected yesterday, and to begin my work.

They have, however, occasionally something approaching to our plays; where more than one character appears in a naked room, or in the open air, in front of a kiosk, while the spectators look from the windows, or form a circle round the performers.

The kiosk of the harem was a temporary wooden building; pitched, and repaired with unpainted timber.

Sometimes there is a kiosk leading out of the gallery to a rather higher level when there is a view to be got by it, but externally there is nothing pretending to architectural effect in the private house of a Turk.

In the middle of the square stood a kiosk, evidently intended for concerts; the instruments of an orchestra were still there, lying on the chairs before the desks, as if the music had only been broken off a few minutes previously.

A shot came from the catwalk, a spitting electronic stab that sent a shower of sparks on the kiosk ceiling.

You see, back there in the telepathy kiosk, I wished that too, and the machines were made only to obey.

All you had to do was wish, inside that telepathy kiosk, and it was just like Aladdin wishing with his lamp, eh?

The greater part of this space was occupied by gardens, with their marble fountains, kiosks and ornaments of various kinds, not inferior in beauty to the more strictly architectural parts of the building.

A man, entertaining a party of friends, sends for a company of dancers to enliven them in his kiosk or pavilion.

Then his eye caught sight of a small envelope protruding from a crevice on the kiosk wall.

There is a circular garden in the center of the European part, with faded flowers, and a kiosk for the band to play in.

This he does by moving a little lever no bigger than a man's finger, which at the same time shifts the points for a coming car and shows a light at the summit of the kiosk, as a signal that the road is clear.

As a future inhabitant of the kiosk, you can count me out.

Its shape is that of a Paris kiosk, but greatly magnified.

Some distance away were seen two kiosks united by a kind of arbor covered with banana leaves.

Temples and kiosks had been set up in the shrubbery.

Artistic pavilions, oriental pagodas, and quaint kiosks had been provided for most of the exhibits.

Each time the procession came to a full stop outside the kiosk until the sentinel waiter relieved them of their burdens.

The sultan, in his kiosk, sits at one end of the drive, inspecting the whole panorama.