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

I dropped in on a rainy day, feeling suitably furtive, and, having survived the close scrutiny of the doorkeeper, felt duty bound to partake of Dorothy Parker, a gin from Williamsburg.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019

The zealous doorkeeper opens the big front door sparingly to keep out humidity, and only long enough to let visitors sneak quickly out.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 31, 2019

Shanks’s goal, we can infer, was to be doorkeeper to the temple of infamy.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2017

Their young doorkeeper, Joseph Fry, had died in his bed of the fever.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy