How to Use doorway in a Sentence

doorway

noun

• She stepped through the doorway.
• Please don't block the doorway.
• Homeless people sleep in the doorways of the shops.
• He stood in the doorway, wondering if he should go in.
• The arched doorway echoes the windows lining the home’s façade.
  — David Foxley, Architectural Digest, 20 Nov. 2024
• Death is not the end, but merely a doorway to another world.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
• Cheung looks over her shoulder from the doorway of the hotel room, her face a resolute mask.
  — Frankie Huang, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2021
• Place a piece of paper on the threshold (the bottom trim in the doorway), close the door and see whether the paper pulls out easily.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
• The arched doorway connects the suite; for privacy, Dabito added a water closet with a pocket door (not shown).
  — Maria V. Charbonneaux and Liz Strong, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Sep. 2021
• The video appears to show a student, who is Black, attempting to leave a classroom as the teacher, who is white, blocks the doorway.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 22 Sep. 2021
• Eva Coakley, in a green dress with a jeweled neckline, peaked out from her doorway to greet the peace walkers, who normally make a point to stop by.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2021
• Doug Mills was standing in the aisle with his camera and the president was standing in the doorway between the secret service cabin and our cabin.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 1 Sep. 2021
• The museum was the doorway for me to learning about all those guys, and about all the other bluesmen who came out of the Mississippi Delta area.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2021
• During its second night, the interior was so crowded that audience members spilled out into the street, leaning into the doorway to hear the verses.
  — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2021
• In multi-unit housing, secondhand smoke seeps through light fixtures, wall electric outlets and doorways, posing a unique challenge for those trying to manage asthma.
  — David Stempel, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
• Two people can be seen struggling in a doorway, one in a red sweatshirt with a hood over their head, and the other a man apparently in his underwear with his arms around the person in the sweatshirt.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2024
• The team offers masks and the overdose-reversing drug naloxone for participants to have on hand if needed, and can provide a doorway into addiction treatment.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2021
• Iglauer was visiting Taylor, the service elevator opened by the stairs and Phillips appeared dramatically in the doorway.
  — Steve Knopper, chicagotribune.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• There are no stand-in-the-doorway-and-block-out-the-sun guys.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2021
• Place it over the front doorway or twist it around the porch rail.
  — Stephanie Osmanski, Southern Living, 10 Mar. 2024
• Lo asked from the doorway of his home in the east San Jose foothills.
  — Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 26 May 2024
• His left arm got snagged in the doorway when the plane lurched up.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
• This was with the kitchen doorway sealed off and the window closed, too.
  — Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 30 May 2023
• The bus driver stands in the doorway and blocks the girls’ exit, the video shows.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
• Deputies then found the door to the main house forced open and one person dead in the doorway.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
• In the video, the bear stands in the doorway and doesn’t venture too far into the store.
  — Michael Hollan, Fox News, 17 Nov. 2021
• The video shows the tip of an object poking out of the doorway.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
• The video shows the woman then crouching in a doorway with the tank.
  — Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News, 9 June 2022
• Durham can be seen putting his hands up at the doorway.
  — Jodicee Arianna, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2022
• The black flecks swirl as players step through a doorway to fight the boss.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024