doorway
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Part of the fun is how quickly the mood can shift when you step through a doorway into a peaceful courtyard with a fountain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
“It was the dead of winter, and there was this 18-year-old, I would say, standing in the doorway, hunched over against the cold.”
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
Many have an emotional interest in building a life around the home itself, measuring their kids’ height on the doorway, watching their kids grow up in the house and then growing old in it.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
“It was a doorway into my art practice again,” Bayouth said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
He looks so earnest, in his doorway, eyes still puffy, smile still lopsided.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Andy Burnham's "national drive" to stop people living in tents or shop doorways will include offering them "a route off the streets by Christmas".
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
The family scrambled beneath a doorframe, a time-worn strategy based on the belief, often mistaken, that doorways offer protection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
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
The room was overflowing—people along walls, in doorways.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2026
I kept glancing at the blank, stony, pinched faces of the men and women staring at me from steps and doorways, and at the children, all white-headed just like you see them in the Appalachians.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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