doorman

Example Sentences

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“Everything is going up,” said Ariel Buenaventura, a doorman at a 16-story red-brick building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

I kind of walked through the crowd and into the building, and I said to the doorman, “What’s all that about?”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

Luke Timm, the doorman at Common Country—known to his TikTok following as simply “hot bouncer”—said his experience hasn’t felt political.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

“Later, he covered her rent and furnished her apartment in a doorman building in the West Village.”

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2025

Anu's apartment, which is pretty fancy, has no garage and one doorman, but the Larsens have two doormen—one for the front door and one for the gate to the garage.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins