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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The self-response time ends March 7, at which time the door-to-door count will begin.
—Steve Lord, Chicago Tribune, 23 Nov. 2024
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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
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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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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
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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
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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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Every Halloween, kids go door-to-door to trick-or-treat and adults don costumes to pass out candy or grab a few drinks.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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The randomized, door-to-door effort aimed to get 210 people to complete the survey.
—Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
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Wynder said the program is very similar to Uber and Lyft, doing door-to-door and curb-to-curb service.
—Alex Malm, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
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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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There were door-to-door surveys to assess the prevalence of trachoma and identify hot spots.
—Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 30 Dec. 2024
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With that, Cuban went door-to-door around his neighborhood selling the home essential.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024
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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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In the video, a couple of men are going door-to-door preaching the Book of Mormon, but they’re left with their jaws on the floor when greeted by a woman in lingerie.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 30 Oct. 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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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
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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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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
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Essay Tales from the Conman's Daughter Online, door-to-door: a hustle's a hustle, says a woman who knows.
—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
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After going door-to-door with the pet and failing to locate a potential owner, the rescuers determined that the dog was a stray and placed him for adoption.
—Rachel McRady, People.com, 4 Mar. 2025
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As part of the city’s efforts, department officials are going door-to-door and leaving door hangers, pushing homeowners to get on board.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 27 Feb. 2025
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