: a bell or set of chimes to be rung usually by a push button at an outer door
Examples of doorbell in a Sentence
We rang the doorbell until someone came to let us in.
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The officers who responded found nothing out of the ordinary, and rang the Johnsons’ doorbell.
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Glenn Thrush Carlos Javier Ortiz, New York Times, 5 May 2024
In April 2023, a Black teen who rang the wrong doorbell, a 20-year-old woman who was riding in a car that pulled into the wrong driveway, and a cheerleader who opened the wrong car door were all shot.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
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Glenn Thrush Carlos Javier Ortiz, New York Times, 5 May 2024
In April 2023, a Black teen who rang the wrong doorbell, a 20-year-old woman who was riding in a car that pulled into the wrong driveway, and a cheerleader who opened the wrong car door were all shot.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
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“Doorbell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doorbell. Accessed 17 May. 2024.
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doorbell
noun
door·bell
-ˌbel 
: a bell, gong, or set of chimes to be rung usually by a push button at an outside door
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