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View definitions for doorway

doorway

noun as in egress

noun as in entry

noun as in ingress

noun as in lobby

noun as in portal

noun as in threshold

noun as in vestibule

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Example Sentences

To do a door-frame row, which targets your arms and back, stand in front of an open doorway.

This suggests that a dirty doorway keeps hornets from trespassing on the hive.

Now they bring visions of congressional staffers huddling under a table, angry men tossing a journalist over a barrier and a police officer crying out in pain as a chaotic crowd crushes him in a doorway.

The photographer said he thought the image was taken in a doorway near the northwest corner of the Capitol.

He couldn’t resist talking to a neighbor at his doorway when the building went off pandemic lockdown a few weeks ago.

Black and purple bunting went up over the doorway at the 84th Precinct stationhouse where Ramos and Liu had been assigned.

The man pleaded with them while his wife stood in the doorway of the bus holding their baby.

Looking for a place to get a salad, we pass a gift shop with a rack of dresses near the doorway.

He pushed past a female curate and raced towards the exit, but Father Andrew Cain got to the doorway first.

He is standing in a doorway looking at his wife, who is sitting in front of a computer wearing a telephone headset.

He returned shortly, to meet his mother standing in the doorway, with pale, affrighted face.

Father Gaspara was about to ask another question, when Ramona appeared in the doorway, flushed with running.

Then a fat, untidy old man appeared in the doorway of a cubicle within the shop, and Edwin Clayhanger blushed.

Goodell paused in the doorway and emitted a whistle of surprise at sight of a horse in one of the stalls.

And saying a hasty good afternoon, he popped through his doorway and vanished at Billy Woodchuck's feet.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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