doorway
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“The servers are dropping plates or taking checks, or you’re at the Comedy Cellar following Chris Rock or Dave Chappelle is standing in the doorway waiting.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Chief executive Eleanor Lang said: "We don't celebrate brilliant women enough in our West End theatre names, so we are delighted that her name will be forever in lights above our doorway."
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
A great song offers pleasure, but a great album – no skips – is a doorway.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
A young woman I photographed in her nail salon had matched herself entirely to the space, and the pride and beauty she took in it was visible just standing in the doorway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
By that time I remembered the limpets floating around in the pail by the doorway.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
But many of their homes aren’t suitable for aging because of stairs, bathtubs, narrow doorways and slippery tile floors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Fewer than 4% of all U.S. homes offer single-floor living, no-step entries, and wide hallways and doorways — the key features of accessible housing — according to Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.
From MarketWatch ● May 9, 2026
The room was overflowing—people along walls, in doorways.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2026
I chuckled every time Corden and Gunning showed up for more abuse, including from Soderbergh, who shoots them like a wall of stupidity, blocking doorways as they stand side-by-side like Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
I was fascinated by the dark doorways of private homes crushed between shops and restaurants.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
