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How to use doorway in a sentence

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A short, plump and positively motherly lady appeared in the doorway, ushering us in.
The front door, on a Yale lock, clicked shut behind them, and they stood together, hunched up, in the recessed doorway.
He disappeared through the doorway, returning a short while later with a lapful of pizza, pop, and loose bills.
The modillion was a bracket, a horizontal version of the ancones which supported the cornice of the Greek doorway cornice.
She examined the floor and all angles of the doorway and ladder, looking for any kind of plausible explanation.
The main staircase is actually reversed to create a spacious entryway just inside the doorway.
We walked in through the doorway, and less than a second later, the shrill ring of the bell sounded.
One enters into ritual time and ritual space by passing over a limen, a threshold, such as one finds at a doorway.
He would come back from the rink with his skateboard, and there she was in the doorway of the building.
Note the chair placed near to the doorway and the limpid UJ on the door pillar.
A burst of fire came through the doorway, but I held my position around the corner, out of the line of fire.
The businessman only looked up when he felt a presence lingering in the doorway.
Shocked, she stops, gathers her robe and advances just a bit, to be framed perfectly in the doorway.
Above the doorway of the old hall was a carved escutcheon with a lion rampant, the Arms of the De Lacys.
Christopher continued to stare down at his coffee as she came to stand in the doorway, his finger still tapping the lip of the cup.
The floor area inside the entry was lowered to match the exterior grade and new tooled-limestone surrounds extended the doorway architrave.
First prepare a safe room for your cat, complete with a litter box, food, water, some toys, and a dog-proof baby gate across the doorway.
He was standing frozen in the doorway, a rough sack of belongings slung over his shoulder.
It turns out Risaku's mere hunch became reality and an assassin stood there, loitering in the doorway.
The thin man who had been loitering near the doorway slipped up to Umberto.
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This from the grinning woolly head of tickey, inserted through the open doorway.
In the second place there is no mound of sand in front of yap yap's doorway.
It was another head peeping out of the doorway, a head just like Johnny Chuck's, only it was a teeny-weeny one.
She turned her tameless, moon-pale eyes upon Jackson in the doorway, and bared her teeth in a soundless snarl.
Just then Jerry started a severe strafe and a much-muddied runner of the 13th Royal Fusiliers appeared in the unscreened doorway.
She stood for a moment in the doorway of the room, palely regarding her children.
At the other side of the shop around the corner was a doorway in which sat a woman with a basket of fruit for sale.
When the stool pigeon once more stood in the doorway, rattling his half dollars, they followed him into the den of the tiger.
He and the Whipple boys sat for a long time in the stable doorway and speculated about the knowingness of dogs.
She cackled, and leered with vile significance toward the girl in the doorway.
Thus he appeared in the doorway of his counting-room as Mr. mook came down the street, and passed the Archimedes Works.
The gentleman thrust a moon face through the dusky doorway to inquire if I had changed my mind.
Or would it be a ball of leaves and grasses on the ground, with a tiny doorway in one side, like that of the ovenbird?
Above the principal doorway of this faade is a balcon jour before the great window which lights the main nave.
She stepped into a doorway and started unbuttoning her Alice-blue babydoll dress.
The guesser, as he had been instructed by Deyla, had his card out as he neared the doorway.
Through an adjacent doorway streams the cheerful glow of the engine-room, from which the haulage of the trucks is controlled.
Nat was waiting in the doorway for a renewal of hostilities, if any such there were to be.
And as he did so, the old woman, Johann the keeper's mother, stood in the doorway.
Then the light was shut out as the great figure of Jake blocked the doorway.
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