door knocker
Example Sentences
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A door knocker for a Rockville, Md., apartment recalls a horseshoe crab.
From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2016
Patton, a volunteer door knocker, is among thousands in an impressively regimented and precise operation that has been working the state for months.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2015
What, I wonder, would she make of it if the Queen came tapping at the traditional dolphin door knocker asking to look at her old home?
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2015
Photograph: Epics/Getty Images Durham sanctuary knocker, 12th centuryYes, it is a door knocker, but the monstrous leonine head cast in the 1100s is one of the most striking medieval sculptures in Britain.
From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2011
Three days after we got there I answered the front door knocker and there stood Karel, coal dust from the train trip still speckling his shoulders.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
