doorway

Example Sentences

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A great song offers pleasure, but a great album – no skips – is a doorway.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

A young woman I photographed in her nail salon had matched herself entirely to the space, and the pride and beauty she took in it was visible just standing in the doorway.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

New footage released by prosecutors shows the four chaotic seconds when a gunman burst from a hotel doorway and charged through a security checkpoint as President Donald Trump was attending a press gala.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

Mary Wisniewski of Franklin Village enters the hidden doorway into the Cinegrill Theater at the Hollywood Roosevelt to see L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

The shape of him in my doorway and how seeing him there, rumpled and angular, almost never seemed out of place; it seemed as though he had come with the room.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse