How to Use door-to-door in a Sentence
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The house in Fort Worth, Texas, where a door-to-door salesman was shot.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2024
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Fire crews went door-to-door to get people out of their homes.
—Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 5 July 2024
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The thrilling door-to-door urban combat of the first half gives way to the chaos and failure of the second.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 May 2024
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Once the storm passed, Jermain Wells, a neighbor of the Pierces, went door-to-door searching for survivors in need.
—Robert Bumstead and Michael Goldberg, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
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Perhaps the best selling point of all is the convenience of a door-to-door service.
—Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
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The group focuses on door-to-door persuasion and get-out-the-vote efforts.
—Jennifer Jacobs and Bill Allison / Bloomberg, TIME, 16 July 2024
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Super commuting lives up to its name – the student said the door-to-door commute time was around four to five hours one-way.
—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 30 June 2023
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There was damage, but the sheriff’s department said deputies went door-to-door and found no injuries.
—Phil Helsel, NBC News, 4 Mar. 2023
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As heavy artillery rained from the sky, militants went door-to-door to find targets and shoot at unarmed civilians.
—Cora Engelbrecht, New York Times, 7 June 2023
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The fare also covers pre- and post-trip benefits like first-class flights and door-to-door luggage service.
—Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2024
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With the help of a door-to-door awareness campaign, Odisha’s Balasore was able to reduce annual deaths from about 35 to three.
—Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Feb. 2024
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Volunteer groups went door-to-door, ensuring those in need had medicine and supplies.
—Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
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But does that occur so much that older children should be banned from throwing on a costume and heading door-to-door?
—Annie Atherton, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
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The mayor went door-to-door to persuade residents to vacate and was frequently chased away.
—Charlie Campbell / Taipei, TIME, 13 June 2024
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The mother said the safe room her children were dragged from proved unsafe in the unprecedented door-to-door assault of the Hamas militants.
—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2023
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Harris said the door-to-door survey required in Lowndes under the agreement will help determine the scope of the project, but there are many unknowns.
—Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 7 June 2023
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Per local custom at the time, Shi’s mother had her feet bound, while his father went door-to-door performing odd jobs for food.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 7 June 2023
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Farage supporters have been going door-to-door, ringing door bells, handing out fliers.
—William Booth, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
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Here are a few: Don’t trust door-to-door salespeople or unexpected emails or phone calls from vendors.
—Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 6 Sep. 2023
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Surveillance video and door-to-door knocks in the neighborhood led police to Hamala, who was arrested at a home on 39th Street nine hours later.
—David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2023
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Companies will provide door-to-door service, but define that as a person’s outside front door — not the steps leading to it, or to the sidewalk.
—Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
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With that idea, Maple, Benjamin and the rest of their team went door-to-door asking residents to sponsor free swimming access this summer for kids.
—Acsah Lemma, Sacramento Bee, 22 June 2024
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Johnson also said that McCree’s parents were shocked, and spent much of Wednesday night knocking door-to-door in the neighborhood in search of their missing son.
—Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 29 Oct. 2023
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Playing all of the male characters — husbands, door-to-door salesmen, pitchmen on the salon TV — Michael Oloyede gets his own share of remarkable get-ups.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
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On the Blackfeet Reservation in rural Montana, residents can use its app to order door-to-door rides.
—Jeff McMurray, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
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Imbibing his training and message, the Dudleys took their door-to-door Fuller venture to North Carolina.
—Penelope Green, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
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Law-enforcement agencies went door-to-door on Tuesday to collect the names of about 100 people who didn't plan to evacuate Cedar Key, Tummond said.
—By shannon Najmabadi, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2023
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Such advisors have to do the equivalent of going door-to-door to get business—signing up many clients, each of whom generate modest fees.
—Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 24 July 2024
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Bucking tradition, Girl Scouts would not be getting their hands on any Raspberry Rally cookies to sell at booths or door-to-door.
—Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
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During his door-to-door sales, Zong learned that many children were picky eaters and suffered from varying degrees of malnutrition, which was a big headache for parents.
—Nectar Gan, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024
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