jamb

The 10-year-old stood outside the only home he’d ever known — a home he could traverse in total darkness, whose every floorboard and door jamb he knew like the back of his hand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025

Arredondo described the classroom door as reinforced with a hefty steel jamb, designed to keep an attacker on the outside from forcing their way in.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2022

He was steaming his shirt while it hung from a door jamb.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2022

Instead of drilling countless holes in our front door jamb, and in order to test nearly a dozen different video doorbells at the same time under identical conditions, we built a testing rig.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2021

I jamb my thumb into the button, but can’t push hard enough.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Lacking an automated connection to a monitoring service, she connects exposed wires running along jambs to a light switch.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2023

Check the tops of door jambs and cabinets, which can retain dust.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

“I started with a little campfire and it had eyes and it was really amorphous, like going through door jambs and keyholes” he said.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

Even if it means his leaving scratch marks on the chamber’s door jambs on the way out.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 13, 2021

Bulging tongues of ice had broken doors off their hinges, and through their splintered jambs I could see evidence of a raid: kicked- over furniture, drawers torn open, snows of paper on the floor.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs