doorkeeper

Example Sentences

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Some doorkeepers acquiesce rather than fight, though that could put them at odds with patrons who are allergic to animals or who simply don’t want them around where they live, eat or shop.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2022

At the door to the room stands one of the Commons doorkeepers, wearing a long coat with tails and a white bow tie.

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2022

The leader of the opposition Labour party in the Commons, Valerie Vaz, reeled off a long list of thank-yous to parliamentary staff, from doorkeepers to cleaners and postal workers to police, for their hard work.

From Reuters • Apr. 11, 2019

There are pratfalls, ripped clothes, obstructive doorkeepers, hungry nights.

From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2013

We learn from one of his laws that this church had sixty priests, a hundred deacons, forty deaconesses, ninety subdeacons, a hundred and ten readers, five-and-twenty singers, and a hundred doorkeepers.

From Sketches of Church History From A.D. 33 to the Reformation by Robertson, James Craigie