doorman

Example Sentences

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I kind of walked through the crowd and into the building, and I said to the doorman, “What’s all that about?”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

“Later, he covered her rent and furnished her apartment in a doorman building in the West Village.”

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2025

The doorman and a few members of the maintenance staff dashed upstairs to find that Sasha still wasn’t responsive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

He would often relate the story of how he was spotted by a former drill sergeant outside a New York hotel while he was working as a doorman.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2025

Just as I start to let out a breath, out of nowhere the grand front door to Hecht’s flies open, so forcefully that the doorman leaps back.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse