doorstep

Example Sentences

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Today, she is contemplating the prospect of US military action on her doorstep.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

The building was home to many notable figures before the Beatles set foot on the doorstep.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

"I think there’s now a responsibility on the cabinet to talk to Keir and to recognise, as they obviously are picking up on the doorstep, that this can’t carry on forever," he told BBC Radio.

From Barron's • May 9, 2026

Raja Amin, a former railway union representative who is running as an independent candidate, said voters always bring up the issue of Gaza on the doorstep.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

João de Barros was able to claim in 1555 that Hercules’ pillars, ‘which he set up at our very doorstep, as it were,...have been effaced from human memory and thrust into silence and oblivion’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton