How to Use door-to-door in a Sentence

door-to-door

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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
  • Fire crews went door-to-door to get people out of their homes.
    Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 5 July 2024
  • 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
  • Hise was part of a crew going door-to-door looking for bodies in the days after the storm.
    Lucille Sherman, Axios, 9 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Perhaps the best selling point of all is the convenience of a door-to-door service.
    Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
  • What might have been a 13-hour door-to-door trip was instead, leavened by a pair of delays, 22 hours.
    Asher Price, Axios, 6 Aug. 2024
  • That's the small town of about 2,000 people where crews went door-to-door in the days after the storm, looking for their neighbors' bodies.
    Alexandria Sands, Axios, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The group focuses on door-to-door persuasion and get-out-the-vote efforts.
    Jennifer Jacobs and Bill Allison / Bloomberg, TIME, 16 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • With that, Cuban went door-to-door around his neighborhood selling the home essential.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Volunteer groups went door-to-door, ensuring those in need had medicine and supplies.
    Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Nanos added that the area where the shooting occurred remained locked down and that law enforcement were going door-to-door searching for him.
    Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 13 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • The mayor went door-to-door to persuade residents to vacate and was frequently chased away.
    Charlie Campbell / Taipei, TIME, 13 June 2024
  • 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
  • For the first time in a few years, many kids going door-to-door will carry not only a bag to collect candy but a little orange box, too.
    Michael J. Nyenhuis, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Farage supporters have been going door-to-door, ringing door bells, handing out fliers.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Her mother grew 100 winter melons last year and went door-to-door in their suburb, giving them out to everyone.
    Weike Wang, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2024
  • 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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