doorstep
Example Sentences
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Nine months later, however, Chambliss isn’t just playing—he has become college football’s most shocking breakout, pushing Ole Miss to the doorstep of its first national championship in six decades.
Then powered by a glazed doughnut and extra-large energy drink, he zips around driveways in northern New Jersey and nearby New York, ringing doorbells, photographing doorsteps and hauling away the physical aftermath of holiday optimism.
"It just made me want to push harder. That's on our doorstep here in Wales, so it spurred us on to do some research, and do other things."
From BBC
Last December, on the doorstep of its bowl game, USC appeared to finally have its defense headed in the right direction.
From Los Angeles Times
On their doorstep stood a man with a bin bag containing his possessions in his right hand and a frozen chicken in his left.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
