1
: the opening that a door closes
especially
: an entrance into a building or room
2
Examples of doorway in a Sentence
Please don't block the doorway.
She stepped through the doorway.
He stood in the doorway, wondering if he should go in.
Homeless people sleep in the doorways of the shops.
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Harley had to stand in a dressing room doorway watching Canadian players skate last Saturday after Shea Theodore was lost with an upper-body injury.
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Michael Russo, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025
At the apartment, police found Blue Sr. lying inside a doorway with multiple gunshot wounds, the affidavit said.
—Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2025
Rethink Tight Spots With just a little reconfiguring (moving the fridge, closing off a doorway, and rejiggering the pantry), updating the galley kitchen was a relatively low lift.
—Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 9 Feb. 2025
The Apocalypse was a way out, a temporal doorway to God and Heaven.
—Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
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Michael Russo, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025
At the apartment, police found Blue Sr. lying inside a doorway with multiple gunshot wounds, the affidavit said.
—Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2025
Rethink Tight Spots With just a little reconfiguring (moving the fridge, closing off a doorway, and rejiggering the pantry), updating the galley kitchen was a relatively low lift.
—Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 9 Feb. 2025
The Apocalypse was a way out, a temporal doorway to God and Heaven.
—Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for doorway
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“Doorway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doorway. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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doorway
noun
door·way
-ˌwā 
1
: the opening or passage that a door closes
2
: a means of reaching or gaining something
the doorway to success
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