How to Use doorway in a Sentence

doorway

noun
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  • She stepped through the doorway.
  • Please don't block the doorway.
  • Homeless people sleep in the doorways of the shops.
  • He stood in the doorway, wondering if he should go in.
  • Place it over the front doorway or twist it around the porch rail.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Southern Living, 10 Mar. 2024
  • This was with the kitchen doorway sealed off and the window closed, too.
    — Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 30 May 2023
  • The bus driver stands in the doorway and blocks the girls’ exit, the video shows.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Deputies then found the door to the main house forced open and one person dead in the doorway.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • In the shaky footage, the two men can be seen standing in the doorway, each with a hand on the hammer.
    — Reis Thebault, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • At the very end of the hall is the doorway to the mother's secluded bedroom.
    — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 7 July 2023
  • As Mario died in his mother’s arms, Rashad watched from the doorway.
    — Reginald Dwayne Betts, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Standing in the doorway was a man with white hair who appeared to be in his 50s.
    — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Place one in your doorway during the season to greet guests.
    — Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The shooter fired at her stomach, and Kim was blown back from the doorway into the hall.
    — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Dear Miss Manners: The doorway from my place of work to the parking garage is at the end of a long hallway.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The video shows Li in a bedroom doorway holding a knife with an 8-inch blade.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2023
  • At the end of the week, as Navratilova packed to leave for the Australian Open, Evert appeared in her doorway.
    — Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
  • First, there's Alex in a doorway, posing next to some stairs, and hanging in a tub.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 21 Feb. 2023
  • More than one building had a tent erected in the doorway.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Williams stood in the doorway, screaming and cursing at the woman.
    — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 10 Jan. 2024
  • But the columnist was allowed to poke his head in the doorway and ask questions.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Officers found a man dead in the doorway with at least one gunshot wound to the head.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Why does the cook burn copal incense at the edge of the kitchen and mark its doorway with strange symbols?
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
  • As the pair passed through a doorway, the camera paused on an Oscar on the ground, propping a door open.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Blood on a doorway and the bathtub tell us something’s not right.
    — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Alongside it, propped against the doorway, was a dead raccoon.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • The third guest bedroom is reached through a doorway in the family room.
    — Brianna Griff, Chron, 1 Jan. 2023
  • A couple of nurses came by and listened from the doorway.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Some were trapped in their rooms, debris blocking the doorway.
    — USA Today, 10 Apr. 2023
  • But in a nearby doorway, four bodies lay on the ground — a man, a teenage girl and two children.
    — ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2022

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