doorstep

Example Sentences

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Mr. McCarthy arrives on his doorstep at what is clearly not an ideal moment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Rev Beks Rothnie from the church said support was available to the community "right on their doorstep when they need it".

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

The concert on Saturday will see BTS take the stage on the doorstep of the famed Gyeongbokgung royal palace.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

Not long afterward, federal agents appeared on his doorstep to question him in person.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2026

João de Barros was able to claim in 1555 that Hercules’ pillars, ‘which he set up at our very doorstep, as it were,...have been effaced from human memory and thrust into silence and oblivion’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton