Examples of doorstep in a Sentence
We sat on the doorstep.
The police were at my doorstep.
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Blenheim Palace, home to the Dukes of Marlborough since 1705 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987, is right on the doorstep of The Feathers.
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Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Were these the shrewd moves of a wunderkind on the doorstep of a historic election upset?
—Eric Lach, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Parents in an affluent suburb, both with teenage daughters, their lives are upended when Carmack’s Tom Truby shows up at Ali’s doorstep.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 22 June 2025
Iran, which wanted U.S. troops off its doorstep, organized its own insurgents, and gave them a new kind of roadside bomb, a shaped charge that could send a slug of copper through any armor, including an M1 Abrams tank.
—Karl Vick, Time, 22 June 2025
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Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Were these the shrewd moves of a wunderkind on the doorstep of a historic election upset?
—Eric Lach, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Parents in an affluent suburb, both with teenage daughters, their lives are upended when Carmack’s Tom Truby shows up at Ali’s doorstep.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 22 June 2025
Iran, which wanted U.S. troops off its doorstep, organized its own insurgents, and gave them a new kind of roadside bomb, a shaped charge that could send a slug of copper through any armor, including an M1 Abrams tank.
—Karl Vick, Time, 22 June 2025
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“Doorstep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doorstep. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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doorstep
noun
door·step
-ˌstep 
: a step or series of steps before an outer door
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