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

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

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

The doorkeeper, inside, watched him with mild eyes.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin