How to Use outside the door in a Sentence

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• And the rest of her life was waiting, just outside the door.
  — Adam Galler, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2021
• And sure enough, outside the door a white van was parked, waiting to take me to set.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2023
• In an era long before cellphones, Glaub rushed to the house phone outside the door to the club.
  — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 15 July 2023
• There is no seating in the shop, but a bench just outside the door makes a handy pie perch.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2024
• There were piles of them inside the oven room, outside the door and alongside the building.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2024
• The team shop opened at 9 a.m. with a line waiting outside the door and around the Progressive Field.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 20 Nov. 2021
• The view is where a lot of the value is with the San Diego skyline, boats and marine life all outside the door.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2023
• Or Leopold’s Ice Cream, where the lines often run 40 deep outside the door by midafternoon.
  — Alex Pulaski, Washington Post, 8 July 2022
• On one of the double beds, the rust-orange spread is rumpled; outside the door to the bathroom, there is water in the sink.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• The sky-blue limousine parked outside the door was a provocation.
  — Michael Hofmann, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
• Now, all the while, Mrs. Roosevelt has been listening, outside the door.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 Jan. 2022
• During a stay, guests can request items such as fresh towels to be placed outside the door.
  — Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• Then, on the night of the open house, a line of about 30 people built up outside the door as groups of three to five were asked to look quickly to relieve the others.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 30 Nov. 2023
• Each evening, a brown paper bag with a day’s worth of food for each student is left outside the door to their room or apartment.
  — Connor Sheets | [e-mail], al, 4 Sep. 2020
• The line for pancakes and egg scrambles at Cafe Brazil trails outside the door until 4 a.m., with wait times up to 40 minutes long.
  — Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
• Early in the day, Chevchenko passed a friend’s house, placing food and water for the trio of cats sitting outside the door and taking the keys for the Camry.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• By midmorning, a small group of students stood outside the door peering in.
  — Nancy Shohet West, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
• The long lines outside the door made a strong impression, as did the diamond rings and gold bracelets worn by women behind the counter.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2021
• The Simpsons see mainly people and pets from the front of the house; the backyard is where all sorts of other animals live just outside the door.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 11 Feb. 2022
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  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
• That was his first glimpse of a literary life—a home with magazines on the coffee table and a boat tied up to a dock outside the door.
  — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
• The results were surprising: a mouse waiting list, and a mouse line outside the door of the restaurant, which accepted walk-ins.
  — Cora Frazier, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
• No one outside the door was hurt, Honolulu police Capt.
  — Fox News, 13 Apr. 2021
• Keller posted on Facebook a photo of herself on Facebook outside the door of the Walgreens.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 10 July 2020
• If the door to the bedroom is closed the smoke will set off the high detector and will have to fill the hallway outside the door before infiltrating under the door.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 18 Jan. 2024
• Hopeful diners lined up outside the door for a last-minute reservation.
  — Vogue, 25 Mar. 2024
• Architecturally, part of the text would have been outside the door’s threshold.
  — James L. Fitzsimmons, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
• Diaz stumbled back outside the door and then noticed to her horror that her boy was still in the restaurant a few steps away and in mortal danger.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2023
• Tensions quickly rise when people learn what kinds of alien creatures are lurking just outside the door.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 14 June 2023
• Residents, including those now supporting the recall, have lined up outside the door to the board room to get a seat inside.
  — Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 24 June 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024