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
She stood up even before the door knocker rapped, and put her book down on the little side table before smoothing her skirt and touching her hair.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
