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

Club, and young women were swiftly waved in, known so well they exchanged double-cheeked kisses with the doorkeeper.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2016

He realized quickly the strange doorkeeper resembled certain of the Fair Folk he had once seen in Eiddileg’s kingdom; only this individual seemed in a woeful state of disrepair.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander