doorkeeper
Example Sentences
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When Lord Young started to respond Lady Bloomfield replied: "I had to send a note to you in order to wake you up by the doorkeeper."
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2022
A doorkeeper came over and said something to him.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2020
Shanks’s goal, we can infer, was to be doorkeeper to the temple of infamy.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2017
To become a “sworn brother,” Bosch would have had to qualify as one of the four grades of minor orders, which were doorkeeper, reader, acolyte and exorcist.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2016
When Obsle and Yegey both left town, and Slose’s doorkeeper refused me entrance, I knew it was time to turn to my enemies, for there was no more good in my friends.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
